After owning a bunch of rental properties, I realized that for Single Family Homes, your real vacancy factor is not necessarily 10%. Why? If you have a mortgage on the house, logically then, if it becomes vacant, y...

Hey All - an off-market deal was just put in front of me and I'm looking for options/ideas that could make it work.  Mixed use building.  small commercial space on ground floor, 2 vacant apartments upstairs, crumbling...

Looking to start a new accounting program with the new year, and one of the most important parts of it is to be able to catalog receipts virtually. So far I have narrowed down my options to Xero or Quickbooks. Xero's ...

Hello, I'm a part time wholesaler that has recently relocated to outside of the US.  I'd like to continue wholesaling in the market I was doing deals in,"virtually", I guess you could say but I am trying to determine ...

I have a good tenant breaking his lease 4 months early on 5 days notice. He has cleaned up the apartment well and he believes he is entitled to his deposit. Is he right? Property is in NC. No backfill identified a...

Bigger Pockets Community,
Before the COVID-19 crisis, my investing partner and I were analyzing deals for neighborhood strip centers in our home region.  What a difference a month (or three) makes.  Over the past sev...

I took control of a fully rented fourplex back in August. It is my first time land lording and I would appreciate some advice on three case study tenants:Tenant 1: Single lady with a very difficult personality. She ca...

Please don't take this the wrong way, because I am really very interested in the answer. Though it may appear condescending, I am sincerely attempting to understand. I just can' think of a way to word it that doesn'...

I am brand new to all this but I am eager to get started . With that being said I live in Staten Island and have been looking to make my first investment. Problem is the numbers just aren’t working with price of homes...

All this winter weather in the Northeast has got me randomly thinking about what snow's effect on a multi-family building are? Is it best to quickly shovel off a flat roof of all the snow accumulated right after the b...