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My wife and I recently got married in February and we are in the process of joining our lives together financially. We both currently own our own homes and are in the process of determining which house we should claim...
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I'm almost finished reading The Book on Real Estate Investing, and I'm reading a lot of articles about the benefits of getting my own RE license.Do you think it's worth it? What are the pros/cons?
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Hey all,
The idea of this topic was trying to make sense (and order?) of the most important parameters when choosing a new market when entering remote REI. As you know this is maybe the biggest decision a new investo...
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I am looking for advice on financing construction and converting to long term financing. The property is a recent purchase and currently cash flows. Part of appeal for purchasing is that fact there are existing pad ...
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Does a 4 bed 1 bath go down in value because of the one bath? I have a property I am interested in and it is 4 bed 1 bath. adding an additional bath will be tough unless I remove a bed room. What do you think is...
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After reading long enough on BP, we decided to start a DM campaign to absentee owners. We've received a few calls. Two of them are intriguing.1) Seller is upside down in the property but seems to be well capitalized...
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This may have been addressed previously, but I will state it here anyway. Please be aware of any potential tenants who rush you to make a decision on their applications. If they call you five or six times a week an...
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You know I've had kinda an interesting week....
I've seen like two of those rare deals of the decade this week. One anyone could have stood to make about $300k net. The other was rather unique in that there was poten...
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Hello,
My husband and I are getting ready to search for and hopefully purchase our first property in Charleston, SC. We have been doing lots of research on real estate investing in general but need a little g...
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I had a seller contact me, knowing that I buy rental houses. It's in an area I know well, and can probably work a deal that will work for both of us.How do we go about finalizing the transaction when we're done negot...