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Hey Moguls,Newbie looking for advice on the best use of the ~$170K in equity I have in my SFH in East Oakland. I bought it in late 2015 and my home's value has gone up a lot. Currently, I live in one room and rent out...
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Background
I am not a Professional Real Estate (yet) as I am working as a full-time engineer, and I don’t meet 750 hours of services during the tax year in real property trades or businesses in which I participated. ...
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Hello everyone,I own a couple of small multi-family buildings in Florida, though I live in Los Angeles where I make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year in the entertainment industry. I mention my income to show i...
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Hi, and thanks ahead of time to whoever responds to this. I am new to the real estate investing world. My business focuses mainly on pre-foreclosure, sub2 purchases. One of the main reasons I chose this realm is be...
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Been running the Skidsteer spreading about 60 truckloads of dirt on
our upcoming Contractor building location. One of the Bumps, made me
think of Value Add as a topic. In between Breaks, kept jotting
concepts dow...
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Hi All!
Looking for some guidance/advice please. I would like to purchase rentals. I've set up an LLC and then went to the bank to talk about my plan and see what finance options I have. The bank tells me they won...
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Say, I purchase a small distressed apartment complex for 500k that is valued at 600k. I renovate the apartment using an equity line (Is this a good idea, in terms of the source of funds?) My goal is to renovate the ap...
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There is someone out there using my name (although they are using my last name as their first name and my first name as their last name) to lure other real estate investors in to thinking this person will fund whateve...
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Recently I purchased 2 of Mark Walters courses on the note business in which only educated me on strategies I can execute without providing any forms or actual instructions on "how-to" flip notes. That being said, I'm...
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I found this market flyer for this property
It is a 8-unit multi-family property being sold at $800,000.
The market flyer seems to do the basic number crunching already. It calculated a CAP of 6%. It also already c...