Andy Chen
Time to find a new PM
Dear BP, I inherited a PM when I bought my turnkey rental last year. Since the beginning, there was not any conversation or update initiated by the PM and I always had to track him down after I noticed an issue. M...
Andrew Low
Other People's Money
How do you truly use someone else's money and not your own in real estate investing? Very confused because everybody I have listened to has preached that you can do this, but then on Bigger Pockets everybody is saying...
Ashley Wilson
Raising Capital from Accredited Investors
Hi BP Community! I am partners in a local Philadelphia group that has an apartment deal in Houston, Texas, and is currently in the capital raising stage. While I have a network of accredited investors that I am speak...
Max Balesteri
Advise for starting an out of state buy and hold investing portfolio
Hello everyone,I recently found and signed up for this great site. So far I've been reading a lot of posts and figured it's time for me to get involved a little more.I recently started my research for putting together...
Al Williamson
How Can Landlords Profit from the Internet-Of-Things
Wi-Fi enabled sensors will soon be embedded into nearly every product so "owners" can monitor the data the object sends. A gate may send a signal meaning "I'm open" and a chair may send a signal saying "183 lbs." ...
Account Closed
My tenant stopped paying rent...
Hello, I live in Montgomery County, MD and about 3 month ago I rented my basement to a single lady. I gathered one month security deposit and first month rent at the day of moving. After the first month she stopped p...
Omar Ruiz
Death of Direct Mail...Birth to Digital Marketing (Part II)
About 9 months ago, I created a post on BiggerPockets (for those who are interested, check out the post) around how I was choosing to stop this romance with offline marketing (i.e. direct mail, driving for dollars, do...
Scott Trench
What's the Best Cash Flow Market in the Country?
Which city/region offers the best chance at rental property cash flow in this country? Anybody have any guesses?
Jason Ling
Machine learning and Real Estate Investing
Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...
Brandon Handel
Is it stupid to have my name in my LLC?
My original idea was to have my Last name in the business name for the entity that would be managing my properties. The properties themselves would be in separate LLCs. My question is if this is a stupid idea. Others ...