Lu Carter
Potential Tenant has kept out-of-state DL for 4 yrs
I am screening a woman and her fiance (mid 40's) who have lived in TX for 4 years. So far the information about landlord history and income is normal. On their applications I ask for drivers license number and state...
Scott Trench
Help Me Understand the Fed's Most Recent Rate Hike?
Up until now, I've been cheering the Fed on, grateful that Jerome Powell took his lumps for the way too easy money policies in late 2021, and cranked hard on interest rates to beat inflation. I think in 2022, this Fed...
Marian Smith
Will housing ever return to normal?
NYTimes asks has home buying and how home buyers look at buying fundamentally changed? Austin and Austin home buyers were profiled in this Sundays NYTimes article. I can't post the link but there is a paywall anyway...
Matthew Stallings
Best Florida STR Market
I currently have a cabin in Gatlinburg that is cash flowing well. The market there is inflated right now so I'm looking to purchase my next STR property in Florida (possibly Emerald Coast) doing the second home loan ...
Alex Pyatetsky
Convince Me Not to Invest in Austin (Aka. Scrub My Thesis)
Quick Background
I'm a first time investor that fell in love with Austin, ironically, by getting quarantined there for 1/2 of 2020. I was well aware of the growth over the past 10 years, but when Joe Rogan + the enti...
Jeff G.
Looking at Cleveland, Concerned About Buying In The Snowbelt
I'm looking at Cleveland, OH and a bit farther south to Akron, OH for my first rentals. I'm primarily interested in multifamily rentals. My concern is, it looks like Cleveland is part of the Snowbelt. I've seen warnin...
Nicholas Weckstein
From 25k-2.4 million !
My grandmother bought a brownstone building in Williamsburg Brooklyn for 25k cash way back in the day. The estimated value of the property is now 2.3million. Ugh! That's the dream I think for all of us here. My quest...
Jason Coyle
Dallas/Fort Worth REI. What happened?
So, what happened to REI in D/FW? It seems like this market is gaining speed in the wrong direction. There's just not many deals out there, if any, even with minimal margins for investors?Don't get me wrong, there's t...
John Owed
New to BP from Sydney, Australia
Hi Everyone!I am John. I am formerly from Toledo, Ohio and am now living in Sydney, Australia for my full-time job in the Big Data space. I was introduced to BP after looking for Real Estate books on amazon. The kindl...
Elaine Goepfert
PLEASE HELP...being foreclosed on because property is upside down
Jan 2023 I purchased a property in Cape Coral, FL. I purchased for $395,000 and rehabbed for $70,000. I took out a hard money loan with Kiavi for one year. I put up for sale with no bites then transitioned to a STR...