Brandon Stevenson
Luxury Vinyl Flooring underlay
Hello!About 2 weeks ago the wife and I closed on our new home. Everything looked great until carpet cleaners hit the carpets with a black light and found all the stains left behind from the previous owners pets X.X. W...
Brett Staples
Elderly under paying tenant
so im looking into buying a 2 family. the issue is the tenant has been on lease for 10 years, she is disabled, 60 years old and pays 740 dollars a month for a spot that could rent as high as 1100. Morally I couldn't ...
Alexander Canha
Best Underlayment for Soundproofing LVP
Hey BP,I'm rehabbing an upstairs unit of a duplex and wanted to put LVP. Does anyone have any recommendations of a good/proven underlayment to use to help dampen noise from the upstairs? I know carpet would be my best...
Lauren Norman
Underlayment in rentals under laminate
Hi, We're renovating a 3rd (top) floor rental unit and using 10mm laminate from Lumber Liquidators. What kind of underlayment does best with rentals in medium end apartments close to Hoboken? I asked LL about Home Dep...
Dillon Alder
Inheriting underpaying, 11-year tenant
I am under contract on a SFH where there are tenants in place who have never missed a payment in 11 years. They are a retired couple in their late 60's; the previous landlord hasn't maintained the property perfectly o...
John Hickey
How to build a real estate empire in high Crime area
Trying to figure out the best way to close this deal. It's a package of smaller mixed use properties in Newburgh NY. 8 buildings mostly brick 36 units. The gross income is close to 300k expenses 100k. Purchase pric...
Mark Cruse
An Investor Killed!!!!!!!!
I recently decided to sell off portions of my portfolio but I've been in the class d arena my entire time in the business. There was a young investor killed in Baltimore not long ago and it still bothers me. Yea, peop...
Sam B.
$200k in six months - long distance RE challenge
I day traded currency futures in a past life and always kept an online journal to keep me accountable, share what I was doing with the community and have a little bit of fun. Even 10+ years later, I enjoy reading bac...
Chris Adams
My 22 duplex lot deal - $1MM in debt - purchased with no money down.
***WHY I AM DOCUMENTING THIS ***Before you read this post I want to explain why I am documenting this deal. I am where I am today because of the selflessness of a few people that had taken time out of their lives to h...
Joshua Dorkin
BiggerPockets Real Estate Conference: Is it time?
One of my goals over the past 6 years has been to produce a real estate investing conference unlike any we've seen before. I believe that BiggerPockets is in a unique position to create a conference that changes the ...