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Hello BPers,
So I was out and about today and like always I was keeping a keen eye out for properties that look distressed. I happened to find two properties on a nice street that completely stood out. I d...
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I've dibbled and dabbled in wholesaling, buy and hold, and vacation rentals. I've done a little less than okay lol. I have a foreign friend who decided to appoint himself as my partner. He wants me to locate bargain...
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Hello All! My name is Bryan. I am a CPA in Missouri and currently work for a large corporation in the St. Louis area as an internal auditor. My wife and I just joined Bigger Pockets and are wanting to get started in m...
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Hello,I recently purchased my first rental property -- a 3/1 SFH in Detroit. These are the fees my property management company supplied in its contract. I'm curious if these seem reasonable/fair. Any thoughts are appr...
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I'm about 6 months out from having my house ready to rent. I live right next door and will be repainting, replacing flooring and doing some minor modifications.
My home will be a short term min 2 night stay max 1 mo...
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Hi everyone,I'm a complete newbie at investing, and I feel like even with the books I've read there are still so many unanswered questions I have. For information, I'm a year out of college and have a very decent W2 i...
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Does anyone pay a tenant finder fee to a property manager or agent?
We have a property manager that we pay 8% of rents to plus a tenant finder fee. He also wants to be paid per showing because we've had many showing...
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So I am looking at closing on a house at the end of the week, fsbo. The owner is not exactly trusting, wouldn't sign anything until I was happy with the property and was prepared to pay in full.
So I had a property i...
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Quick case study I was hoping to get a couple of updated opinions on.I inherited tenants in a duplex I just purchased. Long story short, I honored the existing lease which had a low security deposit (<50% of rent),...
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I only have 6 rental properties with little intention of buying anything else within the next 3 years. I really need to step up my rental game to the 21st century. Literally everything I do is in-person and on paper, ...