Sharad M.
How do you make your money on rental properties?
From what I understand there are four ways to make money from a rental property:
1) Cash flow - Pretty straightforward. Total money you receive as income is more than total expenses.
2) Appreciation - Increase in the...
Amy Ranae
How to value a multi family apartment building
Hello BP Friends!I'm looking for a 10-30 unit apartment building in my market place by pulling the tax records of buildings with this many units, then looking them up and doing some research before finding the owner a...
Charles White
Advice for newbie, flip won't profit
Hello BP members,Here a newbie from WA that is in trouble. After studying for many months the possibility of buying a house through a foreclosure action I finally did it, and even though I knew about the risk and repe...
Scott Rist
What types of properties do you WALK away from and why?
I posted the other day about creating a more defined criteria for my flipping purchases. I'm moving my business to a more metro area early next year and am trying to define my criteria better. Where I am now is rura...
William Alston
Hello from the Big Tomato
My name is William Alston.
People mostly call me Mr. Bill.
Why is too long for this post.
I'm in Sacramento, CA just watching the melt down... er ummm recession... I mean depression.... or riots maybe..
I am just...
Stephanie Douglass
What would you do with $150,000 cash?
I will have $150,000 cash this summer from the sale of a single family rental that I bought five years ago and lived in for two years.
I’m curious: what would you do? What market would you invest in? Would you buy a...
Grant Francke
Long Term/Unhappy Tenants
Hello BP!We have owned a duplex for about 7 months, it had long term tenants (9 years), they are both in their 70's. From the first time we met them during the initial walkthrough, they were not happy, with just abou...
Fred Shandler
Acquire a property via owner financing, the refi?
Is this possible? I recognize that it would have to be allowed contractually, but is this a strategy that anyone has used?
Chris Reyes
Out of State investing Tips and Warnings
Hello Everyone,My fiance and I have started looking into investing out of state after months of debating of how we are going to expand our real estate portfolio. I am from Northern Colorado and our state has enjoyed a...
Scott Ficek
Help me lower my eviction ratio
I have had a rash of evictions lately for non-payment and it has caused me to look introspectively at what I am doing or not doing when screening these tenants, that may result in me allowing bad tenants to slip throu...