In my rentals I frame a generic welcome letter and place it somewhere visible for the guest when they enter my house. This "system" needs an overhaul as it's a little bit of a pain and sometimes due to cancellations ...

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One of my current tenants called me yesterday, and mentioned that they let a friend from out of the area crash on the couch while he looked for job interviews in the area. As of today, he has been t...

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I'm graduating with a Master's Degree in Accounting in April 2014. I'm completing a great internshpip in valuation and technical accounting right now at PwC. I have a lot of great offers for jobs out of school....

I moved to from NYC to Southern California in March 2016 with the goal of going all-in into real estate investing. The BP community & forums has been critical to my learning curve and was a lot of fun taking the i...

Debating on creating an LLC for protection and tax benefits. I've been told the LLC set up as a sole proprietorship (what I'm planning) won't give me any more tax benefits than owning a property and carrying a heavy u...

Hi all.  I’ve become very interested in notes.  I know there’s so much to learn about notes but it doesn’t seem worth all the education and relationship building for just a few notes for diversification which is my ma...

Hey BP Fam,I'm a local investor in the Houston, TX area. Wholesaling is my usual strategy, however, I've been learning how to do Lease Purchase deals. Come to find out.. Texas is "One of the strictest" states to do Le...

I've been investing in real estate since 2012 and have paid with my own cash for all my properties so far. All my properties are fully rented (with the exception of the last one which is being renovated).Now I'm inter...

Due diligence is "scary" and time-consuming, I've seen people ask "how to do due diligence" so I thought I would share “my method” after 12+ years as a consultant.
I'll like to start by giving you my thoughts on wha...

I've noticed recently one of my agents are having some performance issues with tenants, mainly tenants look to be walking all over this agent, they dictate to her whatever they want, breach leases to move somewhere el...