We have a young single woman who is a tenant in one of our properties who moved in fall 2012. She's a nice tenant and responsible. There was an incident a few nights ago when a big fight broke out on the street in fro...

This is my first home purchase and I am going through the final approval with the underwriter. I've quickly learned that the underwriting process is illogical, annoying, and can also destroy the entire deal while losi...

Hi, I was wondering what people used to track the income, expenses, late fees, etc for their rental properties.  I have 5 units currently and am using a word document I created to track everything, but it is getting q...

Been racking my brain trying to think of all the ways to get my place sold. A few things that I have come up with - not sure if they would have any effect at all - are:Offer a higher commission than the traditional 3%...

I'm curious if anyone has tried to deduct the cost for an account on Audible.com or a similar audiobook database subscription on their taxes?  Can you justify that there is enough real estate related content to write ...

Over the years we've seen a huge number of active military personnel here on BiggerPockets and one of the biggest questions has always been how to invest in the US while serving.

We just completed what we bel...

Hello all, I'm interested to find someone that is currently working the AirBNB market in Los Angeles. I'm interested in renting out my place while I'm traveling to make a bit of additional cash flow/offset my mort...

If you think about your career and your journey to build wealth over a long time horizon, this is still the strategy that I like most:
1. Start a business that produces cashflow.
2. Use your personal cashflow to buy...

Hey there,I want to build a fence around my owner occupied fourplex. I watched a neighbor put up a beautiful 6’ privacy fence and hoped the contractor would put up a sign. They did so I called it. He came out and gave...