All Forum Posts by: Marge M.

Hi BP Family! Where would you recommend living in USA to start house hacking and building a rental property business? The intent is to relocate from a high cost of living area like the Bay Area in California (although we love it here) to another, lower cost of living city where we can start by purchasing a multi-family to house hack (we are newbies, but have read a lot) and eventually build a portfolio of rental properties to retire off of. Would love to hear your thoughts - thank you!

 Thank you for the information. I have been looking in the area the last few months and am curious if you have any recommendation for property management in the area? 

WoW! Gosh how I love BiggerPockets and BPCon events. 2021 was outstanding! I'm still digesting my notes and take-aways, and would love to hear what people thought and are planning to implement moving forward. 

I'm all set to go! I'm super excited about my first BP CON! I'm looking to for small multi-family to invest in. If any BP member are from California and are going to BP CON, message me so can connect!

@Marge M. I'm looking at an apartment in the Boardman Ohio now. I'm planning to schedule a call with the broker and find out the 411. I'm looking for partners on the deals once I get RR and T12. It pencils out thus far from the flyer as a great deal.

This is a reboot for me as Mr. 19 halted my plans last year.  Hope to hear from you.

Yes. It's been fair.  I like the area very much but true performance is what needs to be measured and it's fair for the state of economy.  Do you have investments now, have you checked Sacremento, Fresno, Bakersfield?  Whatcha looking at?

Brian, shoot me a message. We run a fix/flip/wholesale operation out of Poland. I sent you a connection request

@Christopher Nerio  I can't personally speak to Cleveland as I really don't have any experience there though I do know there are many areas around Cleveland that have been booming. Maybe @James Wise might be a place to start there, he seems to be knowledgeable in the Cleveland area as well as many other on here I'm sure. 

It's not that Youngstown is a "bad" place to invest, it just depends what your looking for.... I'll keep buying property in the Youngstown suburbs but that's partially because I have the bias of it being my hometown and also the knowledge of street to street changes in the areas I invest. I have all of my property in the 44512 & 44471 zip codes which are Boardman & Struthers school districts. These areas are certainly not appreciating any time soon if ever but they are areas I'm very comfortable with and provide a very solid cash flow for the costs of the property. Also there is a very strong rental market here with a good balance of homeowners that keep the values at least stable. 

Columbus is a very strong market, though mostly between downtown & the university from what I understand... which has seen a huge influx of money in the last 5 or so years. Might be worth looking around that area.