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What is the best way to start investing? How did you finance your first deal? Hard Money? Bank Loan?
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Nashville.
Purchase price: $259,900
Cash invested: $3,000
Short-term Rental property that has generated $93,513 in short-term ren...
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I know most of the lenders charge from 20 %- 25% for investment properties (Multifamily). wondering if anyone knows lender or tip to get anything less than that ... i.e 10% - 15%.
Thanks
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I'm a new member and want to get more involved with the R.E.discussions learning etc. going on here. This looks like a great site to learn and grow as an investor. I've been 'in the game" for like 25+ years and have g...
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Hi, everyone!My name is Ryan Cheatham and I am 24 years old living in Dallas, TX. I graduated from the University of Texas at Tyler in 2019 with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Soon after I got a job in the corporate...
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Playing around with a compound interest calculator for the first time, its very exciting, and brought up a question on the correlation between net worth and rate of returns on real estate over a 30 year career. A few ...
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Hi BP community!
This is my first post in awhile. I am looking to buy my first property and househack it! Houses in my market are are at least 400k because I am in Northern California. Ideally, I would like to have ...
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Hi Everyone, I am new to this and looking to create passive income with rental property purchases. We live in Marietta, GA and am hoping to connect with people that can share some ideas and/or projects. Thanks in adva...
I have just started intense study of real estate and am in the middle of taking 3 real estate/business classes while working full time. I am currently an L1 certified ASE master technician and originally was looking ...
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Hi, I am a professional working in the Bay area, CA, and would like to purchase an investment property in Austin TX. I have experience living in Austin for about 4 years till I recently moved here due to work-related ...