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Happy New Year everyone!I am starting to get the ball rolling with my buy-and-hold investing (three SFRs operating, two more in process) and I have a friend from Canada who wants to join in. I have a lot of questions ...
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My brother signed a 15month rental agreement for a studio apartment in downtown Columbus Ohio for his Daughter to live in as a Surprise. Prime location! One problem, his daughter accepted a job out of state a day af...
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Before, I get flamed for acquiring a property with HOA, I want to get some advise from the BP community on dealing with this. One of my properties that was recently transferred from property management has unpaid dues...
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On the day of closing, the buyer decided they want to back out of the contract for no substantiated reason. The buyer wants their $50K downpayment back. My attorney is advising that I take $10K out of the $50K down p...
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We are about to rent our home and move in to a bigger family home. I found a tenant and we both signed a contract. I am in a HOA that had some stipulations. The intent was to take 1 month rent and 1 month as a securit...
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New member and fairly new licensed contractor looking for advice. I'm almost finished with my first flip. Another property has become available that I'm interested in flipping, but I don't have the cash for the down p...
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Hi BP Community.I want to add a clause in my lease for allowing an early termination of the lease. I just acquired a property and one of the tenants moved out early. Should have been disclosed to us but that is a d...
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I have a commercial space and the current tenant has a year left on her lease. I've noticed business slowing down and suspected they might shut down (they have multiple locations). She is talking about shutting down...
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My tenant just let me know they accepted a new job in another town and will therefore be leaving us. They've been good tenants. However, their move will occur in Oct driving us to seek new tenants in a tough part of ...
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I signed a purchase agreement for my first investment property in Texas - the original closing date was early April. I paid my earnest money on time and have my loan ready to go. However, it turns out that the seller'...