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Hello everyone!I am 29 years old and I have been investing in real estate for the past 3 years. I currently have 300k cash to put down towards my next purchase. I own four single families homes, a duplex and a triplex...
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Background
I am not a Professional Real Estate (yet) as I am working as a full-time engineer, and I don’t meet 750 hours of services during the tax year in real property trades or businesses in which I participated. ...
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For those of us that have been doing this for a long time (25) years its crazy to see how much the rents have gone up in the last 5 years. When I started I had a 2 bedroom for $495 a month it took 20 years to get that...
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A friend of mine has been investing in Real Estate for 7 years and turned me on to the idea a couple months ago. Long term I would like to focus on flipping homes so as to avoid property management and tenants. But I ...
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Dear All,I am new to REI, and have been researching optimal investment strategy for me and my family. If we invest in cash flow property, after taking the depreciation tax benefit, the positive rental income will stil...
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Hello! I would love to get input from the BP community on this. We are working on one of our first flips, and are trying to find that sweet spot on amount of renovations to do - most bang for our buck and time. We ...
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Hey BP! We've got 3 Buy & Hold investments in Houston, TX (though I'm definitely still a rookie). My husband and I LOVE the water, so we're strongly considering making our next investment a waterfront vacation ren...
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I am considering a life hack and wondering if anyone has real data or life experience that could help me make a decision. The basic plan is to purchase or build a ski-in ski-out house or duplex in Colorado. I may neve...
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Hi I am looking to start a new business in San Diego doing Airbnb rental arbitrage. Is anybody in San Diego doing it? I am looking to set up an LLC and get started right away. Is there special laws I need to be aware ...
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Im on my 3rd property now and just getting more comfortable with all of this and now wanting to scale faster with BRRRR using hard money loans. I've been pretty strict with my numbers which is good in one sense, but I...