Collin Hays
Smokies State of the Union
Regardless of what the talking heads are saying, the U.S. is in a recession. I haven't seen a May this soft since the financial crisis. The calendars for our properties are filling up decently, but it is taking daily...
Amiris Brown
Cost of bullet proofing a house?
So, there's this house that has been deeply discounted about $100,000 off its original listing price. Just last month there were 3 armed robberies next door to that house on a street with businesses. There have been m...
Phillip Massey
Single family rentals
I am interested in hearing from people whose portfolio consists of single family rentals. I currently own 7 sfr. I’ve had great success acquiring them over the past three years. But it seems like this is the point whe...
Hector Rodriguez
Lowell, MA; One Investor's Story
PART 1: INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE, the Why, the Where, the What, the How, and the How Much:
In mid-2017 my wife and I decided to go back to what had been one of our passions in the mid-90's, the ownership and manageme...
Marc Faulkner
Ethics of Park Owners Requiring First Right of Refusal?
We buy a lot of manufactured homes and have more demand for them then we can hope to fill this year. That is a good problem to have!!!
Unfortunately I have run into several occasions where the parks are cl...
Nhi Nguyen
Multiple lots development in San Jose: anticipated 30% return in 1.5 years. Your gut feeling?
Greetings everyone.As some of you know, I'm building a new house in San Jose, documented here: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/522/topics/154... , which scheduled to be finished in a couple of months. So I'm itch...
Aaron McCurdy
Where do I begin? Commercial investing -- ie: Car Wash
Hello, All! First off, thanks for any advice that I can get. I am learning as much as I can but there is so much to all of this. My wife and I have been discussing what we can do to leverage some of our money and di...
Matthew McNeil
Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Question
12 months ago, I paid off my first rental SFH property in Boise/Meridian, Idaho. Net cashflow is $1060/month. Comps say the current market value is $230,000. I paid $172,000. Two options I’m looking at;
Sell and i...
Peter K.
Refinance- how do you make money off that?
I heard on BP Podcasts multiple times- especially from Co-host @Brandon Turner that he bought a house as soon as his daughter was born, he bought a multi-family property for a 15 year note so that when his daughter wa...
Kurt Granroth
Why invest in a deal with a tiered Class A / Class B split?
Class A / Class BThe practice of splitting the LP investor equity group into Class A and Class B (sometimes: "Series A" and "Series B") tranches is already extremely common and seems to becoming almost ubiquitous. Ins...