Joseph Niedermeyer
Promoting professionalism vs anonymity
As we become professional real estate investors we promote ourselves publicly as being professional real estate investors. But how do you balance that with risk exposure? As I understand it, LLCs can help with anonymi...
Gregg Schiff
Tenant Operating a Home Health Care Business in Rental House
We have a SFR rental where we've discovered that our tenant is operating a small home health care business in the house. Their lease expires in a coupe of months and we are debating whether to renew their lease becau...
Cris Johannsen
Looking to make a business out of rehabbing.
All,I know the typical way to minimize your exposure to capital gains and employment tax is to hold the property over a year. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to minimize that exposure when doing short term re...
Andrew Wheeler
Syndication in Canada
Anyone have any experience with doing a syndication investment as a Canadian in the U.S? Any company’s you can recommend, preferably with a low minimum. I would like to have some exposure to a U.S. market.
Will Chitwood
Mortgage Company Requiring Insurance in Personal Name
We own all our properties in LLCs with mortgages in our personal names as we switched them to the LLC after purchase. We never had problems with mortgage companies accepting the insurance in our LLC names until this y...
Jennifer Pithie
How to set up deal with private lender for flips
I have two properties I want to flip in the LA area. I own one and have negotiated purchase on another. I am an experienced designer and have private lenders (friends) interested in investing. What is the best way to ...
Mario Morales
"It's not you, It's me" insurance company broke up with me
I got this email from my provider, thoughts on why they called it quits?We will not renew this policy when it expires. Your insurance will cease on the expiration dateand time shown above.Non-Renewal reason: We will n...
Chris Connery
Multi use buildings vs multi family apartments
I'm currently evaluating a 3 unit multi use building. Two apartments and one retail space on the main floor (barber shop) all units currently rented. It's in a very nice area of town where there are very few closed bu...
Justin Koopmans
Landlording for Cashflow or Appreciation? (in expensive markets)
Hey BP!Got a couple off-market deals I'm considering in Northern CA but I've got some "newbie" dilemmas going into them and it's this - these deals seem like great deals (like $50k-$100k less than what they are worth)...
Joseph Casarez
4 Plex after purchase
So purchased a new 4 plex in the Edinburg Texas area. Rented out the 3, and currently live in one part time. Question is should I put it in an LLC and/or get an umbrella policy? and anything else yall might suggest I'...