Hello all, I am new to BiggerPockets and I am not quite sure how I found this site.  Regardless, I want to know how investors feel about credit repair companies.  Granted that some credit repair companies are unethica...

Hello, newbie landlord question here: Is it common to require first month's rent, last month's rent, and a security deposit for new tenants? I'm aware that Florida doesn't have hard limits on what is required up front...

I am an insurance agent in Alabama and have recently been introduced to REI by a client.  I insure about 60 single family dwellings for a guy in town and have been picking his brain each time I've met with him over th...

My tenant reached out to me this morning stating that she has been the victim of identity theft and her bank account is currently frozen. Rent is due on the 1st and late after the 5th. She requested that I use a por...

I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...

A fellow contributor here, John Carbone, sent me a link yesterday to a lot for sale in the Smokies.  The price certainly seemed reasonable.  It so happened that I know the owner of the lot.  He is one of our homeowner...

I recently purchased a house for $120,000 in cash. The cost approach on the house is $185,000 after renovations. If I go through a conventional lender they are requiring me to use a hard money lender to renovate the h...