Jeremy Karja
Contract for deed deal - Good one?
HI BP,This would be my first deal. We are looking for mainly rental units but willing to do a couple flips a year is our long term goals.Our mentor we met recently is VERY experienced nice older gentlemen. First dea...
Sharad M.
How do you make your money on rental properties?
From what I understand there are four ways to make money from a rental property:
1) Cash flow - Pretty straightforward. Total money you receive as income is more than total expenses.
2) Appreciation - Increase in the...
Suzie Remilien
Performing Notes - Training advice for Seattle newbie
Hello all,
After reading the BP Beginners Guide, browsing the forums and reading a few titles on the best real estate book list, I've decided that investing in residential performing mortgage notes (1st posit...
Chris Adams
Here is how I do it, Please critique
Ive been a REI since Jan 2010 when we acquired our first distressed property, a SFH, with the sole intention of rehabbing the house and converting it to a rental. Prior to this I knew NOTHING about being a REI. But...
Devin Duval
Should I Rent or Sell?
Hello BiggerPockets family!
I am new to real estate investing and frankly I am not sure where to start. I listen to all the BiggerPockets podcast and I have a friend who has been wholesaling for years and just start...
Zachary Peacock
What am I missing on this deal?? Let's talk $$$
Here is the story: I have partnered with two other individuals who are passionate about real estate, and have experience with rehabbing shotgun style homes, but I worry they have limited business savvy.The goal is to ...
Seth Mosley
Buying Below Market Value
I have read this term, for example, "buy it 30% below market value" or something similar a lot on BP.My question to you all is, isn't market value relative to what people would sell it for anyway? So how do you know o...
Shafi Noss
Total Return for Multifamily Syndication Investment?
Hi everyone, I was talking with an investor friend the other day and he asked me a question I didn't have an answer for. He asked "So if I were to invest 100k in a multifamily deal, how much would I make total over a ...
Nick Wilkinson
Buying duplex at 100% LTV! Over-Leveraging or Good Deal?
Hello all,
I am currently the owner of 2 duplexes, 1 conversion and 1 side-by-side. The conversion was purchased using a down payment of 20% and cash flows $525/m. The side-by-side was purchased 100% LTV (zero percen...
Mark Douglas
How in the World does anybody make money with buy and hold????
I've been evaluating my first potential deal for about a week now. Owner-occ FHA 4plex. Pretty good location, steady tenants, etc. I run it through the BP rental calculator..it cash flows $28. Not enough to retire...