Michael Andrews
Reserves on first MFR
I am under contract on a 12 unit MFR and trying to more accurately estimate reserves for maintenance and capex. I am tentatively planning to buy-and-hold the property to build up the downpayment on the next property ...
Stephen Turner
Exit Strategies in my Flip does not Happen within terms of HM loa
Hi:Ok, so I'm about to embark upon making my first investment purchase but I have a nagging question in the back of my mind that seems to be bugging me all the time. If I make a solid purchase of a SF property, with s...
Scott Bares
Why Should I Use Hard Money Lending
I am a dentist in North West IL. I currently have 7 Locations and we own 4 of the properties where our dental offices reside. We pay ourselves rent from these locations, which assures us a profitable return. I placed ...
David Blue
Creative use of my tri state RE Brokers license
I work full time as a Software Engr, and I am a licensed real estate broker in NY, Mass and Rhode Island. I haven't used my real estate brokers license much but I have had it for 20 years. Within the last month I di...
John Khadiyev
Buy and Hold tax deductions
I am in a process of buying a property to rent it out. I know that the cost of bringing the house to habitable conditions is only deductible when you sell the property. But since you can deduct property maintenance ev...
Emily Lee
Investor advice for newbie
Hello, first time poster and new investor here. I have read several books and done a lot of lurking here on BP 😊 my husband and I would like to get started with SFR rentals or small multi family rentals. My original p...
Kyle Josefiak
Building a Reserve for a Primary Residence?
This might be a dumb question, but the thought occurred to me the other day... obviously when investing in a rental property you factor in expenses like CapEx, Repairs, Vacancy, Prop Management and others. Being someo...
Andy Fernandez
How I calculate a future value of a rental property
The question is how I calculate the ARV of a property to put into the analyzer at to do the final calculation. The analyzer ask for purchase price, After Repair Value ( ? ) and cost of repairs.Questions:
ARV of the ...
Daniel Thomas
Cap rate
I am just starting out. I currently own two properties and am looking to get serious and start growing my portfolio. Should I look for properties with a cap rate of 10? For example, purchase price is 84000 then rent s...
John Penzo
Pulling the trigger on trying to decide on hard money or private
Ok,
So currently I own 9 properties. 4 here in the The Dallas, TX area where I live, and 5 in the Dominican Republic. Out of all these properties, I’ve flipped 2 of them and held unto them. I’ve managed to acquire a ...