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20 November 2015 | 5 replies
I would agree with @Eric Michaels that this sounds like it would be hard to finance as a rookie investment project.
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13 May 2014 | 11 replies
I guess your original post was unclear and I assumed the tenants were not paying or hostile towards the previous owner.If they pay, I would handle it very differently.Why don't you give a $50 - $100 gift card to every tenant who signs a lease within the next 10 days?
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14 June 2014 | 11 replies
With a HELOC, it's like a credit card.
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13 June 2014 | 5 replies
This calculator will tell you how much of a house you can afford - just add up your student loans, car payments, and minimum credit card payments and it will tell you.
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8 October 2018 | 24 replies
Purchasing single $0.99 candy bar with the wrong debit card can invalidate the entire SDIRA.
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6 February 2022 | 10 replies
You can outsource some of it, for example to property managers, but you still need to know what you're doing or you can be taken advantage of and/or lose lots of money by making rookie mistakes.
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23 July 2018 | 28 replies
That's the hard legal line, but as far as keeping a tenant happy (especially a good one) there's something to be said for a gift card to a restaurant to smooth things over.
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17 April 2023 | 17 replies
A lot of BP members will show their gross income without deducting fees for AirBnB, lodging taxes, credit card fees, furnishing the unit, utilities, landscaping, etc.
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18 September 2023 | 11 replies
I went to visit my old ER with cookies and business cards and the ER doc said why not work with Residents coming into TGH in August.