My husband and I are thinking about purchasing a vacation property in the Orlando area. We intend to rent this out now and use it as a winter home when we retire. We prefer to be in the Disney area. I figure that w...

I have a question concerning house flipping. I know most use hard money lenders & private lenders to acquire the property but how do they finance the renovation? Do they borrow more than what the purchase price of...

How much can I expect to pay for general contractors?

Let's say that prior to making an offer to buy a rehab, I hire contractor A to do an initial walk-through with me and come up with a detailed improvement ...

Aloha everyone,We have a couple STRs here in Maui. I've been working on a website where I'd like to be able to offer booking directly, instead of sending someone to Airbnb, VRBO, etc. We are using  Wordpress (DIVI) to...

I just moved to the US last year and am a property virgin here.I looked at a foreclosure a couple of months ago and met a realtor there who got me to sign what I know now as an `exclusive buyers contract`, no excuse a...

Our tentative plan is to buy a duplex in our Denver metro area market, rent out the smaller half while updating the the side we live on then vice-versa. Eventually moving out and renting bother sides. Punching the num...

I was going to combine several loans through one mortgage refinance on the current house I reside in. I was going to get the financing from my uncle as it would save me many costs. But he just told me that he found ...

I am suprised that no one took Josh up on his offer of making a suggestion and starting a topic for this on the open forum.

My post to his Blog was as follows and any and all comments (good or bad) are welcome.

The ...

Much of this thread is repost of parts of other threads and blogs from a year ago. I"ve been continually asked about this subject and there are lots of newbies on BP that may benefit from this.
I want - to start wit...

Hey hey hey fellow BiggerPocketeers!BiggerPockets is always looking for ways to improve the site - and what we hear over and over is: What is the best solution for X?    and    Has anyone used X company?We've heard yo...