Hi Everyone!I currently live in Los Angeles and I am actively looking to start investing in real estate. My ideal first deal would be a multi-family (anything from a duplex to a quadplex) in which I would live in one ...
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Hey BP! We finally closed on our first flip on Friday and I now feel like I can post about it! After being under contract 4 different times, I feel numb to the whole selling process and it hasn't actually hit me that ...
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I have a friend who wants me to back him in buying a restaurant. He has been to one of the best Chef's schools, has good restaurant management experience, has a good work ethic, is good with people, and is trustworthy...
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Hey All-Just wanted to check if anyone got Josh Altmana and Cody Sperber First Million in Real Estate and if so did it work and is it a good training program with a good niche technolgy edge training priced for $518.A...
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I'm about so close on my first investment property and I'm exploring my renovation options. I've painted rooms using rollers and crushes before and it's definitely not my favorite activity. I've been looking into gett...
I'm not sure if anyone has brought up this strategy before but I'd like to share how I funded my flips starting out. I call it credit card hacking though thats probably not a great name for it with cyber crime and all...
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Something occurred to me today as my neighbor just sold his home for 200k more than he paid for it 18 months ago... beware of the cashout refinance. It is different this time. It always is. It is hard to recognize ...
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I am looking at an elementary school that has been abandoned. I am thinking I can turn classrooms into several small pods or rooms like a hostel. put in a pool and some nice common areas to make it kind of a pod resor...
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Happy New Year BP community.I just got an email from Zillow rental manager saying that starting in Feb if I have > 1 rental listing I have to pay $9.99 per week for each listing. This is for the Raleigh NC area.An...
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If I want to hire my best friend, for example, who has done work for me and I know his work is good quality, what issues will this present in my BRRR? Will I have an issue getting hard money? etc TIA!