Valerie Nagle
Newbie from Orion, MI
Hello Everyone! My name is Valerie Nagle. Me, my husband, and two children moved to Michigan about 8 months ago for my husband's medical residency. After working in his residency for a while my husband discovered that...
Jorge Abreu
✨Negotiating Terms: Learning the Power of Negotiation
I can still remember the moment we got the term sheet for our first deal and happily signed it, thinking that was the end of the talks. What we didn't know was how things would really turn out. It was a shocking wake-...
Jerry K.
Safest to Riskiest Investments - as PIMCO looks at it
Found this article by Bill Gross of PIMCO. He shows an image of a series of concentric circles with the safest investments in the center and each circle going outward has more risk - according to the PIMCO investm...
Albert Lubin
What's a true OPEX ratio for a 10 to 15 units property?
Hi, I am a new investor and I'm contemplating buying a commercial property to hold. I've been using the general "50% of EGI" rule to analyze properties but I am curious what a "true" range is. I do have some questions...
Amy Stewart
Views from Toronto #TheSix
Hello everyone!I found BiggerPockets from Josh's interview on The Financial Independence Podcast. I've barely scratched the surface of the forums but I'm working my way through the podcast. I dig the audio info becaus...
Sawyer Smith
Are we using the wrong underwriting cashflow criteria?
I heard in a Podcast recently that one of the first things to check when underwriting a potential deal is that the average median income is twice that of the national average. At face value, this seems like a good met...
Braxton Boone
What's a great way to start building credit?
I'm reading Buying and Managing residential real estate by Andrew J McLean and almost right off the bat he says the first step for newbies is to build credit. I would love any type of advice, just so I don't end up si...
Neil Schoepp
What skills should the noob acquire?
I was reading a blog page and the advice given was, to paraphrase, if you can't create a budget and statement of financial condition (balance sheet) for yourself you shouldn't be investing in real estate.....
Nick Jackson
Reluctant end of a partnership
My business partner and I are in the process of ending a very successful 10+ year partnership in which we managed to build a portfolio of 50+ units through the BRRR method. Since the market shifted a few years ago we...
Larry Flanagan
Have you / would you buy a franchise?
I'm looking at an established business to buy for my wife to run. It is an existing business (not real estate related) and nets about $5000/mo with limited owner involvement. However I'm a bit of a libertarian and l...