Benjamin Moody
Purchase Price vs. Rental Value: How N.E.O. Stacks Up
The average single family home price in the United States is $295,300 as of June 2020(NAR). Multi-family residential (2-4 units) properties have followed a similar trend, some market areas reaching $200,000+ per unit ...
Willie Marquez
3 Common Mistakes by First-Time Homebuyers
In 2013, I bought my first home, a 2 bedroom / 1.5 bathroom condo located in Southern California for $170K. While I was hoping to spend between $120K - $160K, it was important for me to buy a property that was move-in...
Nadia Daggett
Where to invest in Tampa?
Where to invest in Tampa? I am always asked this question as the broker of Graystone Investment Group and have spoken with many investors who suggest investing in downtown Tampa's outer ring. As downtown Tampa keeps e...
Mike Dymski
How do you aggregate PM books with the stuff you pay for?
For those of you using outside PM, do you have a clean or automated solution for aggregating your PM books with the stuff you pay for yourself (insurance, taxes, mortgage payment, admin costs, materials, travel, etc)?...
Jonny Lambert
Is this a DEAL?
I am looking to purchase at least two cash flowing rentals for long term holding by June of this year. However, I live abroad and thus have no 'local' market or team in place. This has led me to turn key investmen...
Arlen Chou
How do you, tax efficently, move money between your REI entities?
Hello All,I am still a relatively new buy/hold investor, but over the past 2 years I have put together a small portfolio of 13 doors. Although I am fairly comfortable with the mechanics of buy/hold, I am still trying...
Rashad Nelson
Atlanta - Severe Shortage of Affordable and Licensed GCs
All - I have a continual dilemma. There's seems to be a rampant shortage of affordable, licensed general contractors in the Atlanta Metro market. Key word being licensed. I know the state of GA implemented a law th...
Jim Zatko
Mortgage on a rental
For most of you that do a buy and hold strategy... how long of a mortgage do you get and why? For instance, a 10 year, 15 year, 30 year?
Sunil Gadi
Can one make New Braunfels as their main SFR portfolio city ?
I am kind of newbie and I purchased my first rental in New Braunfels TX recently. Currently, I get zero cash flow on the property.
I noticed that successful single family rental investors choose a city, stick to it a...
Nick Brubaker
Lender requiring insurance be switched to my name instead of LLC
Hello all,
I have a rental property bought with cash (no original financing) and owned under an LLC. I later refinanced it. My insurance policy has recently been discontinued and replaced with a similar policy (reall...