Bill F.
Forgivable Loan for First Time From Employer
Looking for the loan experts on BP to answer a mortgage question. The company my wife works for has a program where they give first time home buyers money toward their down payment in the form of a forgivable loan. Th...
Ryan Sasscer
How do you quantify 4 ways an investment property makes a ROI?
Buy and hold investors (like myself) know that an investment property produces a Return on Investment (ROI) in 4 ways:1. Cashflow (acknowledging a property could potentially have negative cashflow)2. Equity building (...
Arif Sealey
Staging a flipped property
We recently completed two rehabs and got a quote to stage each home for $3250 each for 60 days. It got me to thinking of alternatives. Has anyone used one of the rent a center places to furnish their flip? Based on th...
Daniel Dietz
Pros/Cons of Portfolio vs Individual Loans in Commercial Lending?
Hello,We are getting close to finalizing a loan(s) for a set of 3 duplexes we are buying within our LLC. The properties are all similar in value and have a total value of about 500K. We are able to get terms of 20% do...
Drew Buslow
Buying MF Property / House Hacking
Hello BP community. I'm new to Real Estate Investing and the BP forums. I'd like to learn more about house hacking, specifically with buying multifamily properties. How do you find the most profitable deals in this ma...
Matthew Perry
No cash.. Buying first rental
No cash, want to buy a first property and scenario is, we want to borrow more from the bank than the purchase price will be of the home we buy. So, home is 70k. If we get FHA LOAN, 3.5% down($2450) , but we want money...
Ryan Russell
Creative ways to finance
Hello you beautiful, driven people. My wife and I are getting ready to take the plunge on our first investment property. Yay! We'll be implementing the house hacking strategy, but we have a small issue. We live in the...
Bradley Lyons
New guy in Indianapolis, IN
Hi folks! I'm just starting out in the Indy market. I'm new to real estate investing and I'm trying to come up to speed quickly. I was briefly (disastrously) a real estate agent in Seattle in the late '90s. (I was you...
Matthew Espana
What's the best way to accurately predict rental rates?
Hi all, I am looking to get started investing in long term rental properties. However, when analyzing deals what seems to confuse me most is determining accurate rental rates. Zillow offers Zillow rents, but I don't k...
James Snyder
New to the game! looking for any advice.
I Currently own a home in Jacksonville,Florida that I plan on making a long-term or possibly a short-term rental.We are Looking to buy another primary home that we can house hack to have another rental within 6 moths...