Gary Dezoysa
Putting security bars/doors on a rental in a rougher area?
For those of you who landlord in borderline areas or worse, what's your rule of thumb on when to put security metal over your windows and doors? Is it a case of "do it if everyone else does it"? If I wanted to be extr...
Robert O'Keefe
Airbnb & Short Term Rentals - New Financing Restrictions
Investing in an Airbnb or VRBO vacation investment property just became more challenging.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently announced financing restrictions for condo buildings that have a concentration of units ut...
Anthony Fecarotta
Selling Rental Property At A Loss
Merry Christmas everyone,I want to preface this by saying I do have a CPA that I have used my entire career (mainly W2 income only), but before I bother her on Christmas day I was hoping I could get some insight on th...
Remington Lyman
Contract left back doors open and I am out $2,000 in appliances
A contractor put in barn doors in my out-of-state client’s duplex that I am managing in Columbus, Ohio near The Ohio State University.I guess they left the back doors opened because when I went to do a tour today they...
Jordan Abeel
Break in and theft of job site.
I just had an unfortunate experience with a rehab I’ve got going right now out of state. The contractor called to tell me there had been a break in and both brand new water heaters were stolen (it’s a duplex).
My que...
Scott Painter
Apartment building sale who covers code repairs
I have a 4 plex that should close in June. The inspector came today and found small issues like not enough insulation on AC lines, not enough smoke alarms etc. Furnaces were about 12 years old which we knew when we w...
Manny Cirino
List Commissions Dispute???
Good afternoon, I have an issue were a seller decided to hold off on the listing and postpone all showing until the husband felt better. They never cancelled the agreement because they didn't want to pay a cancellat...
Lyle Burlingame
Strategic Guidance Help in year of Covid - +2 Properties -1 Job
Greetings, This is my first post on bigger pockets, after being a listener since August, I now need guidance from this community more than ever. I will try to be as clear and concise as possible in explaining my situ...
Sean Williams
Seller w/ Lien on 2 Properties - Wants to Sell
I am a real estate broker and I have a client/friend with a single lien of $93k on top of 2 properties...one valued at $80k +/- and another at about $100k +/-. She is wanting to sell the one valued at $80k, so we are ...
Lawrence Henkel III
147 year old 5,000 sf triplex
So I looked at this property today and it is a huge 5,000 sf 147 year old home that was converted to a 6 unit at some point. The current owners have converted most of it back to one giant 3,200sf home with two 900 sf ...