All Forum Posts by: Kevin Liu

Hi everyone, 

What is the best way to find a good lender for your market? Also, what makes a good lender good? 

I just started my real estate investment journey and want to get a pre-approval amount estimate. 

To any lender available to finance in Ohio, I'd love to connect. 

@Wale Lawal

Thank you for the response. You mentioned "consider small multifamily properties if you want to scale faster" and I'm curious why small multifamily would scale faster than SFHs?

Hi Everyone, 

I'm new to REI, and I've been looking into some out-of-state investments, specifically in Indianapolis IN, Lexington KY, Fayetteville NC, and Lubbock TX.

I work full-time in tech and don’t have a background in real estate, but every day I study REI material to familiarize myself with this world. I plan to continue saving/learning until I have about 130K and purchase my first property next summer. 

I'm mostly looking to BRRRR and possibly turnkey properties, and I'm curious how remotely controlled these investments can be. I assume that I will never need to visit these markets in person and conduct all of my business through Online/Phone. Is that an unrealistic expectation, and should I fly in a few times a year?

I'd love to connect with investors and agents in these areas to further my knowledge about these particular markets. 

THANK YOU everyone for your response! These are great advice and I'll start to look into turnkeys as well. 

Hi everyone,

I'm 25 and have always been interested in real estate investing. I work full-time in tech and don’t have a background in real estate, but I’ve been reading books like BRRRR and others to get familiar with the world of REI.

My goal is to buy my first property by the summer of 2026. I’ve been saving for the past few years and should have around $130K by next summer.

I have a few questions and would love to get your advice:

1) Do you think $130K is enough to buy and rehab SFH properties in the Indianapolis market? I've been browsing Zillow and see some SFHs around $100K, but a lot of them were built before the 1940s. I'm assuming those would need pretty heavy rehabs?

2) I'm open to other types of REI projects too. If you think my budget would be better suited for something else, I'm all ears.

3) How do you estimate rehab costs? At what point in your research process do you start crunching numbers? I've been looking at Zillow , and often they don't have good pictures and no floor plans attached. How do you work around that when you're trying to run numbers or use rehab calculators?

Thanks so much for any advice you can share!