Needing a little guidance.  I partnered with my son to purchase a house hack for my son while he attends college.  We found a good house with 5 bedrooms about 10 minutes away from his university. Financially, it’s wor...

Hello BP,

After months of reading, asking questions, and posting on the forums I'm ready to start making deals within my communities and making money! I'm not sure if this is the traditional approach to findi...

One of the big things that was bothering me about real estate investing is the negotiating side. Im 22 years old, and being short makes me look even younger. What worries me is, would people give me the same respec...

I run co-living houses in San Jose CA. I have 3 students living in 3 different rooms of a SF house. Bathrooms and kitchen are shared.One tenant writes :A confrontation occurred because I kindly asked a roommate to cle...

In an earlier post, I mentioned I was purchasing a vacation rental property in Florida.  It took a few months, but we finally purchased a home that closed early this week.  The previous owner had several bookings in p...

I have a tenant that needs to break a lease due to separation.  They are 8 months into a 3 year lease.  So do I just get in there and get it back on the market or do I spend time and money trying to go after them?  I ...

Hey Bigger Pockets Community!

I am working towards settlement on my first home purchase! Settlement is set for early November. My plan with the purchase (a 4 bed single family in Philadelphia) is to rent out 3 of the...

I'm just curious to see what motivates the people here to invest and to keep learning new things. I'm sure there will be lots of different reasons. My main motivation is, of course, money, but money that brings power ...

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I am rehabbing a property in Philadelphia with intentions to flip it and I am a Realtor. The estimated completion date was April 1st initially and then with some added work that came up, we signed an add...

Recently the home prices in my area seem to have risen to a point that a good buy and hold property that cash flows is hard to find, most barely make the 1% rule much less the 2% rule. I've been looking in the Abi...