Chad Jordan
Forming an Innovation and Creative Inspiration Group
Good morning, I am an agent (with a strong design and advertising background) in the Philadelphia area and am looking to start a small group of investors, architects, designers and agents who in their profession focus...
Matt Morgan
Sellers of my new home did material damage to hardwood floors
Sellers of my new home did material damage to hardwood floors prior to title transfer. They are refusing to pay for the $800 of damage to fix the issue. They damaged the floors shortly after the walk-through and didn'...
Larry King
Accelerated depreciation on primary residence turned STR?
We are planning to turn our primary residence into an STR at the end of this year and are looking to take advantage of accelerated depreciation if we can meet the REPS requirements. To my knowledge I believe this is p...
David de Luna
Planning out the Rehab Draws
I'm looking for some collective wisdom to chime in with their own experience on this. I want to give my rehab crew all they need to get the job done but want to protect myself by ensuring the final draw is large enoug...
Anil Gathala
How to organize learning in biggerpockets blog as a rookie
Hello everyone,
I'm new to biggerpockets. Excited to be here and excited to learn more from the blog & everyone!
A little bit about my background in the context of real-estate. I do have a rental in CA. However,...
Michael O'Byrne
Accounting method, implications for rehabbers?
Hi All,
We just started a c-corp to take advantage of ROBS capability, and I'm doing some basic research on cash vs. accrual method for accounting. For a rehabbing business it may not make much difference du...
Alvin Grier
Direct Mail and Private Lender Luncheons; Waste of Time?
Is it waste of time trying to get strangers to attend a "private lender luncheon?"BACKGROUNDFor the last couple years, we've had one single private lender that we've partnered on rehab projects with.But after reading ...
Chris Garzino
No Money Down Purchases
Hi BP Community,I would like to invest in a multi-family property using a no money down method. If anyone has a method they have used successfully and would care to share it would be greatly appreciated.I thank you i...
John Hyatt
Is there a clever way to use credit cards in real estate?
Recently I have been fascinated with travel hacking, learning about ways to manufacture spending to earn points. It hit me that as a real estate investor we spend hundreds of thousands if not millions paying for contr...
Eric DeVito
Contractor charges/estimate accuracy
As a newbie who is doing research for his first flip. How do you know if a contractors estimate is to high or to low? For example say the contractor tells me all the work needed to be done will cost 40,000, but in rea...