Joe Kim
Rental Arbitrage -how to do airbnb without BUYING
Lots of people have asked me how to start doing a "Rental Arbitrage" in STR (short term rentals - Airbnb is most popular but VRBO is another way).Rental arbitrage is you as the investor rents a home and becomes the te...
Brandon Hall
THE Thread on the Final GOP Tax Bill - Q&A
Happy Holidays! As of today, the House and Senate have sent the GOP Tax Plan to the President to sign into law. I've seen numerous threads popping up about the GOP Tax Bill. I wanted to start a thread to consolidate q...
Robert E Bogino
Newbie First deal: bought 2 rentals in one day/3 in one month!
Heres the short version for you who TLDR.I never bought a house before. Bought 2 in one day, 3 in one month. Learned all I needed to know right here on BP. Used all the calculators here on BP to figure out the deals....
Nicho C.
Tenant wants to break lease due to AC
Hello BP community,
I am currently renting a home to a family that has been in my unit for about 3 months. Since they've moved in there's been numerous complaints about the A/C not cooling to the desired temp and ma...
Hoang Bui
Which General Contractor to Go With?
So I recently acquired a triplex on an FHA loan, and I am planning to remodel the unit where I will be occupying. I received three quotes for my remodeling project, but I am having a bit of a tough time trying to deci...
Giani Brussich
Please help me understand why STR is considered evil by locals?
If this is the wrong place for this, please remove it.Recently, I have seen a lot of threads/posts come up on social media (I know, not very reliable or the truth) about how bad/hated STR is for local neighborhoods. W...
M Marie M.
469 square feet of rental house Baltimore, MD
This is a story with drama, drama I did not want. And I can't say what kind of ending it has as this rental property is still on the market and has not caught a renter. But (I know I should stop starting sentences wit...
Dawn Anastasi
$23,000 house
On the Bigger Pockets Podcast Show 29, I spoke about very low-priced houses that I'm buying in Milwaukee. In the show, Josh made the comment, "my neighbor just built a garage for $25,000" Other people have commen...
Alicia Marks
QOTW: Are natural disasters affecting your investment strategy?
If you didn't catch the "Seeing Greene" episode recently, an excellent question was presented that I thought would be worth discussing. Every area you invest in has risks of natural disasters of all kinds, but these d...
Joe Kim
Out of State Investing - NEW and IMPROVED
I recently had a post "Out of State Investing-SCAM! False promise land of cash flow".https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/351...I may have given the wrong message that out of state investing is not a good wa...