Hi everyone.  I was wondering if anyone here has any experience utilizing their primary residence for STR/AirBNB while away on vacations or long weekends? If so, how was your experience with it?  We tend take weekend ...

We are about to purchase our first rental property and are a little nervous about finding renters during the holiday season. We are wondering if it's worth it to hire a real estate agent to help us get it rented. Does...

Hi Bigger Pockets Community! We bought a piece of lakefront property, cleared it, cleaned it up, and made a pretty good profit off of it. Now that I know more about Capital Gains tax we just bought another piece of la...

Hello all,I am band new to this and would like to invest in the Columbus, Ohio area. Does anyone have any recommendations on real estate agents focusing on investment properties or general contractors they would like ...

What do you think of giving your tenants a welcome package? 

Hello everyone,

A new investor friend has some cash coming in and has been asking me about the best investment strategy. I’ve usually invested passively and I’m a bit worried I’ll give the wrong advice.
Knowing what...

Hi.  New investor here.  Getting things moving along a little slower than I'd like, but making progress nonetheless.  A little about me...mid 40s, married, 2 grown children, still in the area I was born.  I've had a f...

Hi guys,
I'm new to the BP forum and to REI in general.
I'm wondering if you could share with how common are property management companies in the Baltimore area.
Considering the fact I'm about to buy my first property...

I have a property management company but I am leaning toward converting my clients to Master Leases. I have seen it done it another state.My reasoning is property management is set up for the management company and n...

Newbee (Me) is trying to find out the easy way of getting a tenant screened. All the background stuff, all the calls, credit checks evictions, criminal records, and so on are time consuming. Please compare / contrast ...