Nat C.
Moral dilemma on raising rent
I'm in a crux about what to do on 2 rentals. I've never raised the rent on both properties since the tenants moved in. One tenant has been there 5 years and the other nearly 7 years.I would like to start with a prelud...
Shera Gregory
PIP Group / PIP East / PIP West
I mentioned in a separate post over a year ago that I had bought some tax liens through PIP East and was hopeful on the prospect of obtaining a property that way. My experience was an example of "be careful what you w...
Jason Ling
Machine learning and Real Estate Investing
Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...
Zach Jones
I'm trying to buy an apartment complex without having millions
Bigger Pockets.. Its been a long time. Since my last time on here I've successfully purchased my first investment property. A triplex, currently trending to have a full ROI in around 4.5 years. Seeing the potential...
Carson Kesner
Tenant Wants to pay entire years worth of rent but...
I showed a rental today to a possible tenant, who for all intents and purposes, checked all the boxes, they agreed to sign a 12 month lease @$1000 a month and pay $1000 security deposit. Non smoker, no pets, makes 70K...
Cole Hagen
Is Scott Trench Wrong? Retirement Plans vs Real Estate
I just finished Scott Trench's book "Set for Life" and let me start by saying it is a awesome read and I fully recommend it to anyone and everyone.In the book Scott bashes on typical retirement plans such as roth IRAs...
Tyler Rowland
"Shouldn't Landlords Feel Guilty about raising rent?"
I was talking about Real Estate Investing with some people at Home Show event, and as I was talking about getting rents up to market rates. A lady in the conversation asked me if I felt guilty about that (raising rent...
Supada L.
First rental turned out to be negative cash flowed.
Hello,
Can anyone please give this first-time landlady some advice on this issue?
I bought a turnkey from Roofstock last summer. It is out of state and I have a PM to take care of it. It's supposed to cashflow about...
Matt Leber
Seeking advice for improving returns on my portfolio of 8 units
Hello BP. I have been thinking about how I can improve my rental property portfolio consisting of 8 unit streams. I have been tracking returns on my properties with a spreadsheet I created for myself, and I have ident...
Alicia Marks
QOTW: What are your "hard pass" items when evaluating real estate
Welcome to our Question of the Week! We have a lot of people who are entering the world of real estate investment who could use your wisdom. When evaluating a property, what are your automatic no or exclusion list ite...