These days seems people would rather publicly crowd source their questions instead of googling them like the rest of us.

You could have kept scrolling too.

The Amtrak website seems terrible. I can barely get it to function. Is that what you use or am I missing something?

There are 14,000 vacants in Baltimore, if it’s $100k on average to renovate…

Your job should expense your travel.

The problem for most of these is the location. You invest $100k and now own a property no one wants to live in. The ones in good locations sell for $50k, with much higher renovation costs. At that point, unless you’re an investor with a crew, it’s cheaper to buy an existing structure or a brand new build.

Yeah man. If it was that easy to make a 50% return, everyone would be doing it. Many of these projects either fail, or barely break even. Most would be thrilled at a 15-20% return. I don’t flip, I BRR (Buy, Rent, and Refinance) and I make higher profits but also have higher carrying costs. On most of my properties I make about a 10-15% rental return, but the properties increase in value over time as well.

Heck, I found a trip to Philly in April that would cost $5 for coach and would be about 1hr 15 min.

Who you responding to? I didn't say that

Beyond that, you have a $100k investment in a neighborhood no one wants to live in. The minute you leave the property empty it’ll get broken into, emptied and trashed, and you’re right back where you started.

There are 14,000 vacants in Baltimore. You’d expect the city to front the cost to repair them? It costs $15k to demolish them and $100k to make them habitable.

Say hello to doubled taxes…

Fixed. My apologies.

Dang! Good to know.

Yeah, anything over a 10% return in real estate is good, but 30-50% returns aren’t realistic. $114k is maybe 15% profit.

Bramble Baking has dried flower bundles. You could ask them for their source and then contact them directly. If you look through their Insta, I believe they tag the source.

I think it went $114 but I can’t remember.

Definitely do Amtrak, but if your company isn’t going to reimburse any and ALL travel, that’s a red flag right off the bat

If you're in the industry and doing total kitchen remodels for under $25k then please share your company name and the photos of your work. Otherwise, it sounds like your sub-$25k kitchen remodels are not something you're willing to stand by.

Call B Willow, I’m sure if they don’t have what you need they’d be willing to talk it through and find a solution

Our home was in that state in mid 2020 when the guy bought it, rehabbed it and sold it to us. It's a brand new house from the brick walls in. I think he put about $130,000-170,000 into it with everything he did. He had a crew who did everything. We have a dugout, finished basement, main floor and second floor. 3BR, 3.5 bath. Fenced back patio (concrete) with everything new to code. Tore off formstone, tuck pointed, the brick, added a 2-story addition onto the back of the home. Basically he did the classic East Bmore Flip that's happening on every street around us.

I will say he had a tougher time then because he was doing this during the pandemic while the housing market was insane. So getting appliances and materials was really difficult for him. He actually did everything right structurally and mechanically with better-than-contractor-grade finishing spec'd throughout. My father is an engineer and has been a home inspector for 30+ years and said this place is a lot better than most of the flips he's seen.

So, ours was probably on the upper end of that range. I'd guess $155-170k for the total renovation.

It's why the city shouldn't let people sit on vacants and should absolutely have programs that keep people in houses. Making cosmetic changes is a heck of a lot cheaper than a complete tear down

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I mean the bus you still get an individual seat and there's usually luggage racks/storage. Yes the train is a little bit more comfortable but it's only a 3 hour ride. I've used Megabus, FlixBus, and OurBus and have had very few problems with any of them. Megabus is occasionally late showing up but I still usually arrive within 20 minutes of the anticipated time.

NE Regional should be quite a bit less than 200/rt if you book 14 days advance.

I travel between NYC and Baltimore pretty frequently, and go with the train when its a reasonable cost, and use OurBus when its not. OurBus seems to be about $30 each way, and its stop is a block from Penn Station, which beats a lot of the other buses that stop near the beltway. And the bus has never been crowded when I have taken it, which is usually Fridays/Sundays.

I drive in Baltimore at night all the time, and I live in a semi-rough neighborhood. I keep my car doors locked, but I am much more concerned about the average skills of Baltimore drivers than about carjackings