Jacob Sontag
Evaluating My First Duplex Deal Analysis House Hacking
Hello all,I recently posted about a duplex that I was looking into and wondering what anyone thought? Since this would be my first deal and I know that I am wanting to invest in real estate throughout my life. A littl...
Eric A.
NYC operating expenses?
Question for all the seasoned NYC / Brooklyn / Queens multi-family buy and hold investors out there. When analyzing multi family properties in our high-cost area, what rule of thumb or percentages do you use for esti...
Alex Craig
February Tenant Approvals - Credit Scores
This year we started keeping metrics on everything we do as a Property Management company. While we have always done avg time on market to lease a home and vacancy rate, we are taking it a step further to segregate t...
Ryan Standage
Understanding the 50% rule
I have been reading up on the 50% rule, and i am trying to understand it fully. My previous method of calculating expenses only adds up to a mere 35%
my old way includes
Property tax x 12
Mortgage insurance x 12
Re...
Aubrey Martin
Note Purchasing - For Beginner
Hello all,This is my first post on BP, despite listening to the podcast for well over two years now. The recent podcast on purchasing notes intrigued me because I had never heard of this method. I feel this may be a g...
George Foster
New Investors and Due Diligence
I met a new real estate investor today that purchased a property at an auction. He contacted because of Bigger Pockets. I am known in my small circle as being someone that does not hold his tongue, for good or bad, an...
Tanya Potts
Need financing to rehab
My family have a property that needs rehab badly. Want to rehab and rent it out since the family has pretty much abandoned it as we all got older. How can I get financing to do it?
Dulmi Heva
Rent increase for lease renewal
Hi
I own a rental property in the chicago suburbs and the same tenant has been living there since I bought it in 2021. Due to recent property tax increases and association fee increases, I cannot keep up with the ren...
Connor Parker
Are there good cash flowing opportunities in CT?
Hi all,I'm currently looking for my first deal as a buy and hold investment and working out whether to stay local or go out of state. I live in Connecticut and have been looking at Bridgeport as an option, but propert...
Kyle English
Upstate New York timberlands
Hey fellow BPers I was just curious to see if anyone in New York has any market knowledge or experience with timberland investing? I thought it would be a very interesting niche of investing to explore more and learn ...