So the quick version of this is:My mom moved from the area (sf bay area to so-cal) and kept her house here. I am the "property manager" for the time being.We did as much as we could to get the place rent ready in the ...

Hi Everyone!My name is Alex Poh.  I'm a 31 year old jewelry designer and fabricator living in NYC.I have no experience in real estate aside from riding shotgun when I was a kid with my mom during her open houses and p...

Listening to podcasts and reading articles, etc. it's clear that investing in real estate while simultaneously holding a full-time job is possible and common. But I'd like to target this question to a more narrow popu...

I recently bought a foreclosure house. It is on a narrow lot with a garage on it. While the house was vacant the neighbor came and dug up the leach fields for the house I just bought. He told me it was to detour peopl...

I've sort of got this question floating out on another thread, but I want to directly ask:As a landlord with 3 rental properties I maintain a dedicated home office.  This is the first year I will be claiming the deduc...

To help absorb the carrying costs of financing flip properties, I agreed to remodel an unfinished basement in exchange for a lower-than-market rent for myself. Now that its complete, I see how badly the area under the...

Technology has advanced much throughout the years and cellphone technology is not a stranger to advancement. As a result, cellphones – or smartphones, as they are more commonly called today – have evolved into lit...

Hi there,
I got as call yesterday from the property manager on a roof leak in one our SF properties. We've had two very strong rain storms over the past thee months and both have caused the roof to leak in one area. ...

The Exit Cap
I chose to start with the Exit cap because it seems like a small factor in the syndicator’s underwriting and is often overlooked by many passive investors. However, it’s one of the most important factors...

I am new to Bigger Pockets and just went to my first REA meeting where the speaker talked about buying non-performing notes and "becoming" the bank ie refinancing with the occupant. The details in how to actually do ...