Ray Loveless
My Painter wants half down. What's the best way to cover my self?
I'm doing a small flip on a house 2 hours away in Utah. A fellow BP member gave me a referral of another flipper in the area. I called him about contractor suggestions and he mentioned that his son does painting and o...
Riley F.
Hello from The City That Never Sleeps - NYC
Hello everyone.
I'm 28 years old, working in the hedge fund industry in NYC and would like to start investing in real estate. I've always felt somewhat drawn to real estate ever since I was very young and am ...
Ashley Shearer
Multiple Realtors - offensive?
Hello - my husband and I are closing on our first house this Friday (duplex, house hacking). We plan to buy many more houses over the years and build this business. We're using a realtor who has been very helpful and ...
Niecy Smith
Is having a real estate license beneficial before investing?
Hi everyone! I am very new to real estate investing. The most experience is with buying a fixer upper for my first home , rehabbing it and eventually selling it. I am in the process of taking a real estate course to g...
Michael Plaks
Straight talk: my CPA keeps delaying and is not responding
We accountants are regularly approached by investors who are unhappy with their current CPAs being too slow to finish the work, too difficult to get hold of, too unreliable, too something else... So I decided to open ...
Hank Wu
Investing is Stressful!
Just got started with investing and it is a huge stress! Constantly worrying what my tenants might do, worrying about the market, worrying about the value of my unit, worrying if I have enough seed capital to make thi...
Dan K.
Cash Flow vs. Equity Growth: What's more important?
I've invested in both Cash flow markets and equity returns markets for the last 15 years. The cash flow markets were in Kansas and Texas. The equity markets were in California. While the cash flow markets (Texas and...
Hilary Stalder
Foundation Issues - FLIP or NO FLIP?
Hello BP! I'm new to this world AND that of flipping. I've been in the construction industry for over 6 years though (residential for 3 and now commercial 3+). I came across a great investment property in Orlando, FL ...
Reid Hanley
How to tenant screen Immigrant Tenants with no U.S. ID
I have been receiving a lot of interest in some of my rental mobile homes from Hispanic people that have recently moved to the U.S. from various Latin American countries (Central America and Mexico mostly). Most of t...
Victor Oben
Should I keep trying the MLS - Offers not getting accepted
Hi yall, real estate newbie here. For the past 6 weeks, I've been making offers for properties on the MLS at asking price or above. A lot of the times, seller's agent doesn't even respond, and if they do they let me k...