Looking for cleaning advice from the community.

I'm selling a property where some semi-hoarders grossed out my house for a full 13 months. Despite having a cleaning crew come through and brand new carpet/pad...

How can we apply real estate losses from prior years to offset current year non-real estate income? I assume we need "real estate professional" status, but 90% of CPAs I have talked to (all with real estate clients) s...

Hi allI'm a remote investor and have built a small buy-and-hold portfolio of SFRs in Kansas City (Missouri, not inner city, but generally C type neighborhoods: $700-1000 monthly rent) and am in process of leveraging a...

My husband and I just finished our first flip (which we stumbled into quite by accident), and we're thrilled with the results. We've loved this process so much that we're already under contract on our next project (an...

Hi BP Community,I have a wonderful and kind neighbor who has used her house as a storage unit for about 20 years. She stores stuff there, but lives elsewhere.  She purchased the house for $299k in 1999.  In 2017 it wa...

I'm developing a class on dealing with difficult tenants.  What are the most common tenant problems you encounter?  I need some examples for the class (beyond my own bad experiences) but I'm sure everyone will share a...

I have a condo listing that's been on the MLS for 75 days. I've had 20 showings and zero offers. I'm looking for some creative ideas to attract an offer. I do have a slight price issue, but it's currently the lowest p...

Hello! I will be closing on my first STR in early June and could really use some recommendations on how to manage it myself. I have worked with long-term rentals and flips, but this seems like a whole new world! I wou...

First of all, I didn't start this thread to attack the professional tradesmen, but sometimes it gets to a point where even if you want to pay someone for a job, you end up DIYing the last 10% (or 25 or 50) of the work...

I was just doing some cleaning and found a bid I had gotten a couple years ago from my (former) plumber of mine to do some basic work on my personal residence. I saved it because I planned to start this thread one da...