If you are an investor or a realtor in Houston I welcome your feedback. I built a tool for my investor clients that automatically calculates EVERY listing on HAR (our MLS) and it tells you if it cash flows. Then it allows the user to filter the properties based on how they want to finance the pro...
Out-of-state investors keep using "about 2%" for Houston taxes. Close, but here's what a rental actually pays. There's no homestead exemption, so you pay the full rate. 1) Inner Loop (City of Houston + HISD), 2025 rates per $100: City 0.5192 + HISD 0.8783 + Harris County/Flood/Hospital/Port 0.624...
What strategies are people using to make deals work in today’s market? I’m struggling to find deals that cash flow. Any tips anyone has that is working for them? I’m located in the west houston market (fort bend county).
Hey everyone, I'm Gerald from Houston, TX. I work with Monarch Sky MGA, where I focus on helping real estate investors with Builder's Risk, Fix & Flip, vacant properties, renovations, and other investor-owned residential risks. I'm a University of Texas graduate and have built my career around de...
hey all, new to the houston rental space. me and my partner are building some tools for first time investors here so trying to learn from people who've actually done it for those who bought a long term rental around houston, what surprised you the most? taxes, MUD, insurance, financing, finding t...
I'm interested in learning how real estate agents manage their prospecting and follow-up systems. One challenge in real estate is that a potential client may be interested today but not ready to buy or sell for several weeks or months. I'm curious about how experienced agents handle this. 1. How ...
Is it true that attorneys and CPAs in Texas avoid establishing alliances with real estate professionals in Mexico, or is it simply a local myth? What would happen if tomorrow one of your clients raised their desire to invest in real estate in Mexico? Are you willing to allow your client to walk a...
I’m looking for a CPA who specializes in short-term rental real estate, tax planning and tax strategy. I’m currently considering the following companies and would love to hear about your experiences with: Hall CPA Keystone CPA Ryan Bakke / Tax Strategy 365 WCG CPAs & Advisors ProVision Madsen & C...
Good afternoon, I am new here and a disabled Veteran looking to use my VA home loan for the first time within a year or so. I live in the Houston area in a suburb north of the city called Kingwood. I have been doing research and gaining knowledge for a couple years. I am having difficulty finding...
Hello, I’m fairly new to real estate investing and wanted to see how everyone typically structures payments with contractors on rehab projects. What do you consider normal? Small deposit upfront? Pay for materials upfront and labor as work is completed? 50% upfront and 50% at completion? Or progr...
https://www.har.com/content/department/mls Houston Real Estate Highlights in September, 2026: • Single-family home sales decreased 5.7% year over year. • Pending sales declined 11.6% to 6,789. • Active listings increased 6.3% to 40,192 homes. • Days on Market for single-family homes increased fro...
Textbooks always preach targeting a 15% or 20% ROI on value-add projects. But in reality, a 12% to 15% margin on a $250k purchase can get completely wiped out by an unexpected plumbing line and an extra 45 days of holding debt. When you're running numbers on a deal today, are you underwriting str...
I recently hired a property manager for my Houston rental property. A contractor disabled the HVAC system for an inspection and did not turn it back on. I only noticed because my electricity usage dropped significantly. I alerted the PM and they sent someone out and now I owe them $200 for the vi...
I've been following the foreclosure numbers lately, and there are some interesting trends worth watching. According to ATTOM's August 2026 report, Texas had 3,126 foreclosure starts and 1,835 completed foreclosures in a single month. Houston alone accounted for 448 completed foreclosures. Nationa...
Hello, I am in the early stages and need to build my team before I buy. I'm also trying to learn how to analyze the deals myself rather than just relying on someone else to tell me whether a property is a good deal. I am working on understanding ARV, comps, rehab costs, rental comps, DSCR, refina...
What metrics do you look for when determining whether a long term rental purchase is a good deal? Ideally it’s cash positive, but that could be achieved by just putting more money down. Should you aim to be cash positive with 20% down? 1% rule seems near impossible right now.
Hey everyone, I'm looking to connect with more active real estate investors in the Houston area and learn more about what people are working on. I work with Civic Financial Services, helping investors explore financing options for fix-and-flips, bridge loans, ground-up projects, and rental proper...
I am looking for some feedback and strategic advice on the best way to exit or structure the sale of a small portfolio of single-wide mobile homes currently operating as short-term rentals. Here is the current setup: - Scale: 4 single-wide homes located within a private, 8-home gated park that I ...
I hear that it's hard to find someone in Texas who will do blanket mortgages. Another lender who is also an investor, says its really not allowed in our area but she knows it happens. What are y'alls opinions on blanket mortgages? I have 5 SFRs so far. Four mortgages have a balance around $90-100...
Has anyone had any experience with this company?. Found them on fb along with a few others offering 30Yr DSCR rental loans.
Hi everyone! I'm a local construction business owner looking to expand into property support services, and I'd love some feedback from landlords and property managers in the Greater Houston area. I'm curious how many of you struggle with the time spent handling maintenance requests, scheduling co...
Hey BP Family, I'm an Investment Agent for an off market brokerage in Houston. Lately, I've been receiving mixed emotions from the investors and landlords I work with. On one hand, I receive feedback from investors saying that the market is too terrible to keep investing at the volume they once w...
I'm looking at short-stay demand south of Houston and have a theory I'd like to test against real experience. The Medical Center is just up 288 and Johnson Space Center is nearby. So I'd expect a lot of short stays in Pearland and Friendswood to come from people here for treatment, a job contract...
Loan Commitment states: "There is a prepayment penalty of 1% on the loan for any partial or full principal reduction payments made before the end of the fifth year. After the fifth year the loan can be paid off with no prepayment penalty." So, would the PPP trigger for simply paying a little extr...
I've been starting to hear rumors that Brandon Turner's company Open Door Capital has been losing a lot of investor money. I haven't really followed what he's been up to since he left BiggerPockets, but since I started hearing all of these rumors about mismanaged money and poorly performing inves...