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My wife and I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, have roots here, and plan to stay. (Great place for a rookie to cut his REI teeth, right?) We are about to sell our SFH (not a profitable rental), which sho...
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Hello all,I am a budding real estate tycoon (or at least i like to think so!), and have so far bough one home in Washington DC that will be registered as an investment property and rented out as of September 30th 2015...
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Hello BP!!
After 4 months of reading everything I could on this site, in March I finally took the plunge and bought my first rental property in Baltimore Md. After getting the property leased up( using prope...
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Hi everyone! First post, yay! I'm completely new to BP and REI and have been trying to learn as much as possible. I live in the SF bay area (San Mateo), and my reading over the last few months seems to confirm that in...
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Good evening everyone. I'm I the process of closing on our first property through the VA. My question is Are there any tax breaks with purchasing a home. Being this will be a one year owner occupy before we can rent i...
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When my son wanted to buy a house he didn't have good enough credit so my daughter had to put her name on the title as well because she had better credit. Now several years later my son wants his house back and my da...
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Hey everyone! My name is Collin Savunen. I am a 25y.o. welder and national gaurdsman in Shelton Washington. I spent 5 years in the Marines in Hawaii, Okinawa, and korea before I got here. My goal in life is to have sc...
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Hello, I will soon be rotating out of the navy, my interest is in purchasing and renting, what would pointers/tips someone can advice to someone starting out.
Thank you.
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I found a property I'm interested in buying in Clemson, SC. Does anybody know of a good agent to deal with there? Will also be needing a property manager, so recommendations for that would be appreciated too. Thank...
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Hello BiggerPockets!
My name is Edward and my wife, Kimberly, and I are huge BP fans. We read the blogs and articles nearly every day and have benefited greatly from the advice. We have a fairly new investmen...