Hi Everyone,We currently have vacation rentals that we utilize fully in the summer on vacation sites such as Home Away, FlipKey and Airbnb.  My question is if anyone in the Portland Maine or Southern Maine area has an...

Last December I bought my second rental property and have deeded it over to my LLC which I set up for this purpose.It has been cash flowing very well every month, so I'm thinking I'll have to pay income tax on the pro...

Hey BP,During to foreclosure boom in Las Vegas we never staged a single home we sold and it became very obvious that what sold a property quickly and at the high end of comps was the quality of the finish. Because of ...

For those of you who don't know. I purchased a HUD SFR for 23K on 06/01. It had been vacant for 2 years and was a mess. I estimated the rehab to cost around 3K and completion done in one month. Well after failing Sec ...

If semi gloss is easier to wash out than  satin, then why don't they use semi gloss for the walls?What paint do you guys usually use?

Those who follow my content know that I bag on wholesalers pretty hard. There is a rather robust list of reasons why I do this. But the main reasons are that they are illegal brokers who are too uneducated, clueless a...

I have very bad design preferences.  I mean, my personal home has rooms that are red, yellow, blue, purple, etc.  And we're not talking pale shades here, I mean primary colors.  As you can imagine, it is probably not ...

We hired a company to replace our deck surface and railing. They quoted us a fair price. Under the deck, the worker added support joists. He told me, "If you call the company, they will charge you more for this. I add...

I am under contract to buy a home that is currently being run as a vacation rental. The home currently has bookings several months out, including during some big local events that command high prices. The owner wants ...

Hi BiggerPockets,I was recently having a discussion with my father, who is 60 years old, about leaving the rat race and starting to work for himself in real estate. He has been a Chief Marketing Officer at several dif...