Mary Kaye pepperman
First Summer at VRBO Host-all good til the terrible guest leaves a mess for Maid
How do you handle a guest who leaves the house a mess, smokes in the house and leaves the evidence when we have a clear rule of no smoking and enters a locked owners closet and takes items. We need one more 5 star rev...
Angela Venger
What can I write off for my STRs?
We recently bought a house and are operating it as a short term rental. We installed a hot tub, the hot tub itself cost $12,600, along with concrete, electrical and yard work that is another $5k - $6k. We also install...
Dustin DuFault
Modifying a Lease to Facilitate a Cash Out Refi
Team BP,
I acquired a property via foreclosure auction with cash in the name of my LLC. For a variety of reasons, not the least of which is access to financing, I have decided to move the property back into m...
Alexander Timberlake
Creating Website - Advice
Hello,I want to create my own real estate investor website. From a little research it looks like WordPress + BlueHost is a great way to go.I was wondering if anyone has any advice or guidance on creating a good/afford...
Christine R Doering
Schedule E AND Schedule E for rental income
So like many others I'm an Airbnb host. However I also privately rent out rooms.I fall into the category of renting for more than 7 days and less than 7 days. For this year since I just started anywhere from 1 to 61 d...
Jennifer Rysdam
Wordpress.com or .org?
I didn't realize they were different. Now I subscribed to Wordpress.com and I think I made a mistake. The other one looks much more geared towards websites vs. blogs.Which do you use? I think I can still cancel.
Viviana Nicolosi
STR loophole/cost-seg-- Help needed!
Hi all! I'll try to keep this short. We have had an STR for just under one year, but we have not qualified (per our accountant) for the STR loophole so we have not cost-seg'd it. I keep hearing how people are cost ...
Dan Madsen II
New to the world of real estate.
Good afternoon,I’m new to the real estate industry and have been actively conducting market research by driving for dollars in the Austin (ATX), San Antonio (SATX), Houston (HTX), and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFTX) areas. A...
Brett Hundley
Short Term Rental Loophole without Airbnb Permit
The short term rental loophole is for rentals where the average stay period is 7 days or less. However in my city a permit is required to list on Airbnb for 30 consecutive days or less. If I want to use the short term...
C W
Building Basic Website
I'm looking to build a basic website and was looking for some suggestions on how to get started.
I have very minimal web design knowledge, so I was thinking of starting with a basic hosting site like homestead.com, ...