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Greetings everyone! My name is Troy Bevans, from Davenport, Iowa. I have been running my single family rental home company since September of 2011, and I am currently closing on my 5th home.
My main area of focus...
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Any recommendations for a good lender to buy my first rental property? Also has anyone ever worked with One Brokerage? If so, what was your experience like? Pros and cons?
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Hello BP, I bought my first property in Pelham, Alabama September 2015. I am still holdiing it and now I am getting quiet discouraged and almost doubtful of investing via rentals. The property is marketed in Craigl...
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Right now when I do lease signings tenants sign and date each page of the property condition report, then I take it home, scan it and email it to them, asking them to reply that they received it. Only flaw is that the...
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I've
been using Facebook marketplace to list my apartments for the past 5
years. I only have 3 units and it's been pretty reliable to find good
tenants.
Post pandemic....that approach is a disaster. I've posted...
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I have read several posts from investors who are in one part of the country buying rental (buy and hold) property in another state / area of the country.
My question is how do they perform the due diligence to check...
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Have any of you tried these? Any suggestions?
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A property of mine in the California Central Valley went vacant at the end of November. For the past 4 years, I had a family renting the SFH. I performed annual inspections, serviced the the HVAC filter and smoke alar...
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I have almost completed my first flip. Found information on flat fee MLS listing services. Appears to be a service that is commonly used however I have never heard of it until recently. Does anyone have personal exper...
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Someone in a Facebook group I'm in posted pictures of their house's staging. The listing agent suggested they hire a stager, who cost them a lot of money.The house looks awful. Older or downright weird furniture, beds...