What determines land value?

Is it simply what one is willing to pay? If a Wal-mart wants to develop on a few raw acres of commercially zoned land, does it make that land a lot more valuable?

When a value of a prop...

I’m curious if anybody knows whether the Hamtramck area is growing or what I can expect for the future in terms of renting and Airbnb. I just put an offer down (on 4/21/23) on a house in Hamtramck. It’s a duplex, and ...

Hey BP Fam,I am looking landlord friendly small cities to invest. Here are my criteria:1.Purchase value below 75k2.At least one college3.Diverse economy4.Not high crime5.Growing population 6.Not smaller then 10k peopl...

Thought I'd throw out this mildly interesting report from AirDNA -- the 2022 Forecast: U.S. Short-Term Rental Outlook Report. I say "mildly" interesting because all real estate -- including STRs -- are local. For inst...

Hi BP, I pulled together this data set as a tool to help highlight pockets within the Austin MSA that show the strongest price to rent ratios. I thought there were some interesting take aways and the group may find it...

It's been ~6 months since the mayor did the initial sweep. Still early but changes seem positive. Anyone looking into that area now or been in the area seeing a difference?

I recently received an email from one of my friends who works in real estate. He fears we are in a bubble and it could collapse at any time. The following is his message.Hi Tom,I had a good call with my friend John to...

I am a Newbie.
Here is a summary—Any suggestions are appreciated.
I have about $50K in saving and could potentially get to $100K in cash for my very first real estate investment.
Current consideration:
1. Start w...

my plan is to try to expand at a slow rate and pay down the mortgage at a fast rate, I also want to buy another mobile home park within a few years

Just wondering what other landlords in Colorado are doing in regards to the Devil's Lettuce?  To me,  no smoking in the lease is pretty obvious that it should cover this as well, but apparently it doesn't with a curre...