Peter J.
No HOA reserves ($0). Time to sell?
Purchased a 1 bedroom condo for $180,000 in late 2008. Current CMA value is $130,000. Reserves: Reserve fund was $16,000 in 2008, but NO reserves remaining. There have been no reserve studies.Financials: The condo c...
Patrick Kidder
Has anyone gone to a Mobile Home University 3-day "boot camp"?
I'm seriously considering doing the one in Orlando this month and I want to hear testimony from others as to whether or not it's worth it. I've heard that it is, but before I drop the cash to go I want to be sure.Also...
Zack Kahl
Calgary Market Insight
Hey everyone,Just curious on Calgary investors current outlook for the market. I have been browsing around and finding that some townhouses/condo/apartments are sitting under 200k. From what I can see these are gettin...
Alicia Marks
BiggerPockets Book Club Real Estate by the Numbers- Part 2
Welcome to a new week of Real Estate By the Numbers Book Club! I know we have a few that will hopefully join us this week as well since their books have arrived. This is where we started diving into the math! There's ...
Michael Shadow
Asset Protection
Just looking for other peoples thoughts on what is the best way to protect your assets. I've heard so many different strategies it's hard to try and figure out which way to protect yourself. How do you have set your...
Bill Patterson
Anything You Want Me To Tell NAR?
Is there anything you want me to tell the National Association of Realtors about short sales? I'm not sure if Josh will allow me to mention another forum on BP, but I'm in an interesting discussion on LinkedIn, The N...
Kenneth Sok
Painting and a tenant that smokes
I have an inherited tenant from a property I purchased from a tired landlord.The tenant is great: pays on time, takes care of his own maintenance, also agreed to pay higher rents to match market prices, etc. He's a sm...
Dean H.
Just back from Memphis
I visited Memphis last week ( 2/7 - 2/10 ) and was blessed to have wonderful weather to tour a wonderful city. My goal was to meet and greet as many of the people that have helped me assemble my portfolio of propertie...
Brian Pellerin
Dallas / Fort Worth - DFW List of REIAs
After seeing the interest in the DFW BP meetup and noticing many new investors clamoring for a place to meet, I figured it might be worthwhile to post a collective list of the DFW REIAs that I'm familiar with and a li...
Rich Maliszewski
Section 8
What are some opinions on going Section 8 - Good - Bad or Indifferent?