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26 February 2024 | 4 replies
Hey BP community,Just wanted to thank you all for the wealth of knowledge I have learned thus far from comments I received on my first post a few weeks back.
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27 February 2024 | 6 replies
I'd follow JW's thought process and even consider posting a note on your neighboring doors...to let them know as a neighbor that it isn't appreciated that there is smoking inside, please kindly consider taking your smoking outside.I feel like the approach is everything here...Chicago is a weird place and hard to enforce a lot of things.
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26 February 2024 | 2 replies
Hello,I made a beginner post recently about trying to break into real estate investing and had a lot of helpful responses.
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26 February 2024 | 14 replies
Hi Everyone, I hope this is the correct form to post this on.
27 February 2024 | 11 replies
Michael Plaks has a great post on this topic.2 - Assess the value of those tax deductions to you: Best way to get that is by working with a real estate tax expert.
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27 February 2024 | 9 replies
Maybe you just need to check some box or put the numbers in a different spot.You aren't even posting here because you have an investment, right?
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26 February 2024 | 2 replies
I've thought about writing this post for many years.
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27 February 2024 | 21 replies
Post a notice today.
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27 February 2024 | 11 replies
I guess my post is a little silly come to think of it as I'm taking more than 20% effectively as I take 100% of cleaning fee.
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26 February 2024 | 42 replies
Personally, I feel as though it was very lucrative back in the day, but it is much more difficult now to see a great return on a STR post-covid due to a saturation of people wanting to become STR owners, municipality restrictions, etc.