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5 February 2025 | 35 replies
Not sure what markets y'all are referring to, but In the Chicagoland area, the 1% rule stays strong.
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31 December 2024 | 12 replies
And now a Zappa reference too.
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3 February 2025 | 47 replies
I'm specifically referring to PadSplit, a rent-by-the-room company/platform that operates in those respective areas.
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30 December 2024 | 15 replies
@Stephanie Jacobson it will only encourage and reward slumlords who don’t put a dime into their properties or properties they buy because they charge cheap rent.These properties usually become so untenable that they become vacant and boarded up.
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11 January 2025 | 14 replies
@Rafael Valdor some advice when screening PMCs-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.
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24 December 2024 | 3 replies
Reward in RE prices for risk of course.As for horizontal I get mine from local community banks ..
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27 December 2024 | 3 replies
Can anyone refer a real estate investor friendly real estate attorney in the New Haven CT area?
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30 December 2024 | 0 replies
.- The TL states that those are technically the team's leads and I will owe the 20% if they convert within the year since I was given training (which I was not), lender referal (which was forced on me by the TL even though I work with my own lenders for my clients).Is the above statement true/legal/valid?
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25 December 2024 | 3 replies
If they have not, many landlords will give bad references and it will backfire on the tenant.
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19 January 2025 | 269 replies
@Luís FerreiraThank you for the references.