Brandon Laughridge
AirBnB in Non-sexy Markets
I currently live in a really popular tourist area in Southern California (La Jolla) and know of many people that are having tons of success renting extra rooms, units, or their whole property through AirBnB.
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Vivek Shah
Using Turnkey Companies
Hello everyone, I'm new to the REI world and also BP. I had a question about Turnkey companies. Do they allow you to finance it through a broker or do they want cash up front usually? One of my family members told me ...
Account Closed
👉Boldest real estate goal you ever set and how you achieved it!?
In honor of the annual Intention Journal Sale (25% off starting today!) -- What's the boldest real estate goal you ever set for yourself? Tell us what your goal was, the steps you took to achieve it, how long you work...
Jesse Smith
How did it become "normal" for sellers to pay the buyer's agent?
I'm in the process of selling my primary residence FSBO. We are in a very popular neighborhood, so for now, we won't be going through a listing agent. We are also real estate investors, and we've been on the buy and...
Sam B.
$200k in six months - long distance RE challenge
I day traded currency futures in a past life and always kept an online journal to keep me accountable, share what I was doing with the community and have a little bit of fun. Even 10+ years later, I enjoy reading bac...
Aaron McGinnis
Flip blog - The heart attack house
With apologies to J Scott - typically, my team and I refer to our houses by the street number. In this case, we have two houses side-by-side, and referring to them by the street number is confusing everyone... so we'r...
Nicho C.
Tenant wants to break lease due to AC
Hello BP community,
I am currently renting a home to a family that has been in my unit for about 3 months. Since they've moved in there's been numerous complaints about the A/C not cooling to the desired temp and ma...
David Dachtera
Modular Homes?
Hi, Folks,Want to solicit some input on doing new developments using modular construction.Just to make sure we're on the same page, let me define the distinction:Manufactured homes:Delivered to the final site in a com...
Katelynn Malivert
HELP! Contractor Woes on my first investment property!
Hi All,My significant other and I recently bought a duplex with the intention of house hacking back in August of this year. We knew that the unit we were going to occupy needed significant renovations. After interview...
Jason Ling
Machine learning and Real Estate Investing
Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...