Ashly Frasso
Rent By The Room Property Manager
15 January 2025 | 4 replies
Most traditional property managers don’t handle this setup due to challenges like managing tenant disputes, coordinating overlapping move-ins/outs, and the risk of Fair Housing violations when selecting tenants.
Sarah Ali
Found potential first property - need help on how best to approach selelr
25 January 2025 | 6 replies
Is it fairly priced for the size, location, quality, and other factors?
Joe S.
Creating a note in order to sell it.
27 January 2025 | 7 replies
I'm fairly sure you can structure to sell a partial after a month or two of payments that would pay off the underlying $215K note.
Tim Ryan
Learning the Game of Real Estate Investing
6 January 2025 | 3 replies
I heard good things about it, but I have never played it.
Allende Hernandez
Do you run screening in all the potential tenants?
22 January 2025 | 16 replies
Be careful not to violate any Fair Housing laws during this process.
Nicholas A.
How many markets to focus on at once?
22 January 2025 | 9 replies
There’s no real reason to jump into another market unless your goals shift and your current market doesn’t fit anymore—or if the market itself stops producing the results you need.Mastering one market and squeezing every opportunity out of it is a much better play than spreading yourself too thin and getting half-baked results in multiple places.
Robert Zajac
Managing my manager - how to best approach maintenance requests
21 January 2025 | 10 replies
If you have an older home that requires a lot of maintenance, you probably want to avoid the manager who charges a markup.I recommend shopping around occasionally to see if your PM is procuring fair pricing or just marking you up to make money without justification.As for expectations, you need to read the PM agreement and understand what is charged and why.
Ken M.
Creative Financing and Some Things To Know
13 January 2025 | 1 reply
My humble advice to anyone attempting to do creative finance is:Creative finance is for experienced investors who have access to capital if anything goes wrong.Learn the lawsDon't use a contract "off the internet", laws vary by state and are also regulated on a federal levelLearn the financing techniques correctlyDon’t skip parts of the processDon’t ever do a “kitchen table” closingUse the proper deedAn attorney can help you with the legal work, but the rest you are on your ownYour guru will not bail you out“Investing” in someone else’s deal by providing a small 2nd loan so the “investor” can pay for “cash to the seller” and for “closing costs” so he can do the deal is a very bad planKnow what problems can ariseLearn the responses and solutions to problems before they are neededKnow everything there is to know about Title and what that meansKnow who a "protected class" individual isLearn the "back doors"Learn human natureUnderstand timelinesUnderstand regulation enforcement (some of these "mistakes" have a 10 year statue of limitations ( they can charge you 10 years AFTER you do the transaction) and carry hefty fines and possible imprisonmentThe court doesn't accept "I didn't know" for an answer"Know that the source of the lead plays a serious role in some states and federallyKnow how much of a "profit" pushes the boundaries to invite an investigationYou can be sued by the seller if you don’t do things correctlyYou are automatically at fault if an investigator or attorney or regulator gets involved.
Luke Tetreault
2 years in, Growing Pains! What's the Strategy?
14 January 2025 | 9 replies
Yes we tried everything, and Yes I know now that wasn't the best play haha.
Karen Margrave
What do you think of this concept for Seniors, Students, etc.?
25 January 2025 | 5 replies
In college areas there are a fair number of rooms for rent and they hook up with peers for house rentals.