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Listed our first STR property last month and started using Guesty for Hosts as my management software to consolidate across platforms. Everything was fine when just using Airbnb (though you could argue against needing...
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Hello Bigger Pockets!I'm Jeremy, a newbie investor (no deals yet) living in San Fransisco. I've been in SF for a little over 4 years now, however I'm originally from the Midwest. I grew up in Michigan (Detroit suburbs...
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Hi BiggerPockets Community! Happy New Years! I currently live in Bergen county and am trying to live in one of the units and rent out the other unit. Looking for a safe neighborhood with the ease of renting out at min...
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What are your opinions on the new bill which requires bookings for short-term rentals in residential areas to be for stays of at least 90 days?I'm writing about the new law in Hawaii and would like to know what the lo...
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Hello one and all,Bill Roberts here. I just passed my 60th birthday and have entered "Reinvention" (definitely not retirement). I owned a small chain of successful automotive collision businesses ($4+ Million annually...
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I'm in the process of purchasing an occupied multi-family investment property. I booked an inspector to come out in a few days to test everything. The seller heard we were testing for radon and threatened to kill the ...
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Hi BP - and Happy FridayI have lived in my two family for over two years and ready to make a move. Looking to house hack again but this time into a 3 or 4 family.The first lender I am getting pre approved from ran th...
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There have been lots of conversations regarding the next recession. It would make sense for the buy and hold investors to keep your leverage down to 60% or less. When 2007 hit how did the buy n hold investors survive...
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My brother and I run a small handyman repair business in the Tulsa area and were relatively new to small business. Up to this point we've been strictly commercial. We have a meeting with a local investor that has a la...
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This is such a disaster....So I am trying to get a HELOC with WF... Their UW looked at my financial, talked to me, and told me my DTI was 23%... My own cal showed 30% ish, but I am OK with 23%...Credit approval, condi...