Hey everyone, my business partner and I are trying to get our foot in the door with our first rental property.  The single-family home we are looking at purchasing is currently owned by my business partner's father.  ...

Hello all and thanks for this great forum.here is my question.  I am considering myself a pre-newbie. just wanting to get started in real estate investment. I'm closing on the sale of a rental property  in two weeks. ...

We recently received a final payment from a Tenant via money order.  The tenant was financially problematic for most of their lease to include eviction being filed on them 3 times.  Each time, the Tenant was able to c...

I'm replacing an HVAC unit in one of my rentals and want to get the energy rebate.  My local utility requires the following: Active Energy Customer Account NumberTax Assessor Property IDAny ideas how a landlord can fi...

I have some what of a legal question but want some colleagues advice! I have a property under contract with a 60 day closing. Here is the story, property owners son is a drug addict and has destroyed the property so I...

My wife and I want to form an anonymous real estate holding LLC in AZ (Arizona does not provide anonymity, but it offers great charging order protection).  I was told in order to achieve anonymity that I have two opti...

Hi all,Filing my first eviction tomorrow so wanted some advice. This is for my 14 unit complex covered here. As said in the previous post we had two "managers" on the property though one of them had not done much work...

Asking for a friend.
Rental property bought as husband-wife. Title: held together as a married couple. Now going through a divorce, wife wishes to do 1031 on her share (50-50). Since IRS rule is that tax id of proper...

Hi folks,
I'm planning to purchase properties out of state, and plan to form an LLC to hold them. I might purchase properties in multiple states. I have some questions:
1. Does it matter whether I form the LLC in my...

Hello BP,I have been looking at a bunch of different strategies for getting started and a few have really caught my attention.I live on the North side of Houston and one of the REI meetup groups that I attend is hoste...