Michael Fortier
Chicago Multifamily - Current Market
Hi All, I've not only been a long time fan and consumer of BP, but I've had a goal of house hacking a 2-3 unit multifamily property for a couple years now to help facilitate not only an increase in savings from my W2 ...
Peter J.
No HOA reserves ($0). Time to sell?
Purchased a 1 bedroom condo for $180,000 in late 2008. Current CMA value is $130,000. Reserves: Reserve fund was $16,000 in 2008, but NO reserves remaining. There have been no reserve studies.Financials: The condo c...
Mercedes Falber
New and need advice about out of state rentals
Hi there- I am interested to become a landlord. Has anyone considered properties outside of your state? I am in NY and rentals here are insane but also very expensive to get into. I am interested in properties in F...
Account Closed
Why Brethren of the Buy & Beholders Church want to burn a heretic
Buy and Hold is promoted by most property investors as the Holy Grail. How can so many people with money be so wrong?Although many created their investment capital by wholesaling houses they now choose to become inves...
Lia Veit
New investor looking for advice
Hello BiggerPockets community!
I’m a 21-year-old college student majoring in physics and economics, I am the president of the Commercial Real Estate Club at my University, and am preparing to enter the investment b...
Jonathan Greene
Why You Should Never Take a Break as a Real Estate Investor
Taking action isn't only investing in real estate. You should take a break from buying if the deals don't match your buy box, you are out of money, or for several other reasons (partner isn't on board, over-leveraged ...
Ryan Duffy
Hello from Atlanta! New member, interested in STRs and starting REI journey
Hi all!Apologies in advance for a very long post. It was more to help me to pull my thoughts together in one place but figured I'd include it to give additional color and information. That said, if it is anything like...
Mayer M.
STR - Ventnor, NJ, Poconos, PA or South Florida?
Hey all,So I’m tossing around the idea of buying a STR with the intention of my family getting use out of it.Currently I live in South Jersey and my family travels to Florida a few times a year, In the summer we spend...
Charles Barr
Buying a small hotel/motel in South Florida as 1st property
Background
I'm a new real estate investor in Miami Beach trying to buy my first property, preferably locally*. I could spend at least $500,000 in cash on a property myself, $1-20 million if I go into it with a family...
Michael Plaks
End-of-Year tax planning: Roth conversion 101
I just finished EOY tax planning sessions with my clients, and Roth conversion was one of the topics. It reminded me how confused most investors are about Roth and prompted me to write this long post. Since Roth-relat...