Robin Lambert
New to Long Distance Rental Property Investing
Hello everyone! My husband and I are new to real estate investing. We have been researching a lot and are anxious to get our hands wet. We live in Northern California so investing in our area (and California in genera...
Shawn Ackerman
Title Insurance a MUST or a BUST
If the inspection goes well tomorrow I will be buying a property from a wholesaler(cool person) and I wanted to know if I should get title insurance. I'm buying the property cash and will most likely be putting a mor...
Bok O.
Hotel investing
Anyone with hotel experience give some investing advice? I want to get into hotel investing but it's very capital intensive. I'm wondering what size of a hotel (ex: 1-2Mil size or 3-5mil or 5-10mil) would you need to ...
Yi C.
Let's talk about buying land and lease for solar development
I have been checking into this idea - find vacant land, determine it's general suitability, find developer and sign the option to lease. I found there's not too much people talking about this idea here so I want to op...
Yadira Gutierrez
I have the money, here are the options, what would you do?
Hello BP Community,As a newbie I have found that making that big first decision or taking that "leap of faith" is the most difficult part. I have no doubts that I want to become a REI. I am not scared (maybe just a l...
Jacqui Dolan
Contractor payments - do they expect some upfront payment?
I will be rehabbing my investment property (property manager will oversee) and am wondering if contractors expect some upfront payment (e.g carpet layer to buy carpet, cabinet maker for kitchens). I currently have a s...
Pavel Sakurets
I'm surprised that from all the people on BP nobody knows the answer
I posted a question before if anyone knew how to find vacant properties besides contacting cities and driving neighborhoods. Shocked that nobody responded with an answer.We find that only larger cities have these reco...
Michael Moikeha
Contractor Pay Schedule
Last year I had a contractor walk in the middle of a job with a few extra thousand dollars we had paid them, and it cost more than that to get another contractor in there to complete it.I have a $150,000 project right...
Account Closed
Why Most Single Family Property Managers Suck and What We Can Do About It
Why Most Single Family Property Managers Suck and What We Can Do About ItAccording to the 2014 U.S. Census, 43 million Americans are renters (35%). A large portion of these renters rent detached single family homes. ...
Mustafa Shaikh
RAD Diversified Review — It Wasn't Pretty
I read about RAD through BP and I wanted to leave my review of them for other to be better informed before investing with them. Their salesman (Gregg Poirier) was very easy to get in contact when I was considering inv...