Just bought our property last month and there was an existing tenant. In the current lease that he signed before we purchased the property he has to pay rent in full on the 1st. There was no late fees in the lease. No...

Dear BP,     I inherited a PM when I bought my turnkey rental last year. Since the beginning, there was not any conversation or update initiated by the PM and I always had to track him down after I noticed an issue. M...

I am currently in the middle of a rehab which I plan to make a rental and then refinance.  I have signed contracts with all my sub contractors, however, whenever I check on how things are going they are not happening ...

Calculated Numbers (4-unit)Helloooooooo bigger pockets multi-family investors! I am looking for a quick sanity check as I'm going to have to make a decision on this within the next 24ish hours.  This would be my first...

I decided to try house hacking with my first Duplex, I'm living on the top unit and renting out the bottom unit. I rented the other unit out on a month-to-month basis in the beginning of March, right before the corona...

Economic Update
(Monday, August 31, 2020)

The US economy got crushed in the second quarter, with the worst decline in real GDP for any quarter since the Great Depression. However, the good news for real estate...

Early in January, our duplex caught fire, destroying the bottom unit. We fully renovated it and placed the tenants. This is our best performing property and I really don't want to sell it, but after getting a notice a...

I'm an investor trying to formulate new policies around the new statewide NY Tenant Protection Act of 2019 that was passed in June.  After speaking with countless lawyers, property managers, and RE investors all over ...

Baltimore tax sale is going on as I write this. Getting blown out. Extreme competition in our space. Typically there would be only on or two other bidders on the low end properties. Today we have 4-8 bidders even o...

I often talk with people in the Real Estate Business. I have found that if a person is versatile in his profession there is never a down time for him; remember the buzz word is VERSATILE.

By learning everything yo...