Sela Flynn
House hacking strategy
i am currently in a real estate investments course at my university. originally i was planning to do a house hack in the Dallas, TX area upon graduation. recently, my professor brought to my attention the cycle span o...
Tyler Kavan
What are rental write offs?
Hello All,
I am closing on my first rental property this week and am extremely excited to get started. I am trying to prepare as best as I can before closing to get everything setup as needed. Once the property is mi...
Saranya Sundararajan
First time investor - need advice on price expectations
Our first real estate investment and we want to get into STRs. Looking in the $500K-$750K price range. Have enough cash reserves. I want to start closer to the lower end of my budget ideally but I feel like the 1beds ...
Jacob Beg
Will this invalidate an insurance claim?
Hi All- I purchased a property from a Trustee foreclosure sale. The risk of loss (fire, accident etc) passes on to the purchaser from the purchase date. It took me a few days to get in touch with the occupant who was ...
Jon Wu
Using coliving to BRRR my way to 24% cash on cash
Hey all,Wanted to share my story of my 3rd deal. At the close of the refi it was at 23.5% cash on cash and a 9.4% cap rate in a market where comparable multifam is trading closer to ~5.3%.I'd done two others (maybe fo...
Joshua Dorkin
What TV Shows Are You Watching these Days?
TV is a great distraction . . . personally, I watch the news most of the time, but have a few shows I enjoy.
I'll start:
Entourage
CSI (all of them)
Law & Order (most of them)
Heroes (losing its touch, unfortuna...
Holly Polf
Newbie STR owner again
Thanks to all who offer great input and advice on this forum! I hope that in a year or two I can offer advice too!Anyway, I am purchasing an STR in Villano Beach. Its currently an active listing with a management comp...
Justin Madison
High Income & No Debt, But No Bank Loan
I have a friend I’m trying to help. He owns his own business and makes good money, $200-$300K per year, but he also has many tax write-offs so he shows a much smaller yearly income on his tax returns. His dilemma is h...
Sagar Joshi
Tenant wants to leave because of noisy neighbor
I am currently renting my 1 bd 1 ba apartment in downtown Chicago. I have a very noisy (mentally sick) neighbor living in the unit downstairs. He's a miserable lad who used to be a wife beater and we called cops on hi...
Joanne Gonzalez
Urgent help!! What can I do? Buy, sell, 1031 exchange.
Trying to acquire properties I put myself in a pickle. Good and bad. I used a hard Money lender to purchase both properties. Property one: Condo, having a hard time to refinancing, running out of time (extended 2 mont...