As you can imagine, channels like Airbnb and VRBO take cancelations very seriously and penalize hosts across all their listings for cancelations.

He gives some good insights on the area and has also started his own youtube channel about investing, worth checking out if you are new to the “biz."

Theres a slack channel invite on my profile where I want to create a space for Lehigh investors to talk.

They want to structure an agreement where the daughter is added to the mortgage to make it official and That’s all I got for now. 

Our first deal will officially be in the books shortly!

I am feeling a bit excited, and a bit overwhelmed, as we just closed on our first property this week!    We found a small 2bd/1 several weeks ago on the MLS, first day on market and we put under contract after looking...

The city building official said the city inspects for code compliance but not bad design -- hardly reassuring in light of the municipal fees that drive up home costs everywhere.

She would have had to have warned me with an official certified letter that the tree was dangerous.  

Third is to get an official estimate when the house is under contract, because unless you have a really good contractor friend, people will probably stop giving you free estimates.

Luckily I don’t need the income from the rental properties to live off of yet so what I’ve been doing is channeling all the funds after PITI and management (and charged maintenance for that month) into separate accounts for each property.