Mark Romano
How much insurance is too much?
I’m under contract on a 4 plex in a town that gets hit with hurricanes from time to time. Anyone have any suggestions on how much home owners insurance I should carry. I am borrowing from a bank, and will carry a m...
James Porter
Neighbor wants to buy a part of my land for development deal
Hi; I have been approached by a realtor representing my neighbor who wants to buy 8500sf of my property. She has 19 acres behind her current residential lot that she is looking to develop. The 19 acres cannot be fu...
Jordan Page
New, Used, or Dented Appliances (First Rental)
So I’m less than two weeks away from closing on my first property. It’s a wonderful 3/2 in Hueytown, AL just outside of Birmingham/Bessemer area. The deal will be closed with about 25K in instant equity with typical u...
Matthew Defore
What would you do with this kitchen? How would you budget it?
What would you do with the kitchen in the attached pic? This will be my first time to mess with any type of improvements on my properties?
Here's some of the ideas that I have floating around in my head now:
-New co...
Brandon Walter
Property Evaluation - Mobile Home Park
Hi everyone, a bit new to real estate investing especially as it relates to investing in Mobile home parks. Looking for advice on how to evaluate MHP listings. For example:Asking Price: 1,495,000Cap Rate: 6.36%Units: ...
Princesa Hansen
Someone hit garage door; tenant claims no knowledge; now what?
Tenants in our townhome reported that their garage door was hit & damaged. It's clearly dented and broke hinges, so not fixable and needs to be replaced. However, they claim no knowledge of how it happened and do...
Gary Coles
FREEDOM BANK OF GEORGIA CLOSED BY FDIC; 17TH BANK FAILURE OF 2009
Another Bank failure.
The FDIC said, "As of March 4, Freedom Bank of Georgia had roughly $173 million in assets and $161 million in deposits. The FDIC estimated the cost of Freedom Bank's failure to its deposit ins...
Jeff Green
Email Blasts
Does anyone have any suggestions on what mass email service to use that will have the most probability of getting emails to the inbox and not the junk mailbox?
Terry Royce
P.O Box?
This may seem like an odd question but I see most investors use P.O. Boxes. As a fairly new investor it seems like an expense I don't really need.
Im about to do a 1500 postcard mailing, and may just have the return ...
Account Closed
Dealing with Fannie Mae?
Has anyone had any success buying bulk packages directly from Fannie Mae?
I am interested to hear if anyone has had any positive or negative experiences with Fannie and also how they got in touch to get a bulk pack...