Its cold and snowing in Iowa, thus been online more than usual.Want to wish everyone a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.Winding down the year;Our latest Self Storage location is at 32% occupancy.  Normally I would prefer...

Why aren't builders trying other materials instead of stick-built homes? I just paid $72k for a lumber package on 4 1250 SF townhomes that would have cost less than half that a year ago. Almost every major metro area ...

Hi bigger pockets community,

I have around 500k from home equity that I like to invest in 500k apartment. However i might not find something here in Bay Area but maybe out of state, so if you guys know of any leads ...

Hello, BP community, I am currently renting out two properties in San Jose, as follows:1: Town house, 450K purchase in 2016, currently sale price: $600K.     Expenses:         property tax: $6891.68        interest: $...

When it comes to building your own models how do you underwrite value add rent increases ie: bringing rents up to market at lease renewal/ bringing down units onlineIt can be done manually when investing on a small sc...

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.Hi everyone,I am a first-time multi-family investor, and would love to get some more eyes...

Hope this is the right place for this.I'm venturing into a retail business and after some negotiation have been given the following numbers for space 3,500 SQFT of commercial retail space in a small strip mall that in...

I was looking for an umbrella policy and have just about given up. After 3 to 4 hours invested I am having no luck.Always a problem.Over 10 rentalsWill not write over the current landlord policesNot available in my st...

according to article in new Bloomberg business Week of June 10, 2013, page 52.

"We just don't see the returns there, there's a lot of bluntly -stupid money that jumped into the trade without any infrastructure, witho...

It seems many ex contractors go in to flipping with the idea, like mine, that you can really save profits by doing most of the work yourself. My question is to all of the contractors that have converted to full time i...