The newest trend sweeping the rental market (from my perspective) in Colorado is that many tenants want the right to grow pot in the unit. I can see downsides and upsides.Downs: messy, elevated risk of break-ins and ...

Remember that guy? He was on TV all the time. He talked about buying houses and making a fortune. He never talked about tenants, repairs, evictions, problems, etc. I wonder what happened to him. I know that Tom Vu wen...

Lots of people have asked me how to start doing a "Rental Arbitrage" in STR (short term rentals - Airbnb is most popular but VRBO is another way).Rental arbitrage is you as the investor rents a home and becomes the te...

Just wanted to share the results of our first rental refinance / delayed financing. My husband and I are in our first year of our real estate investing career. Hope to encourage some of the newer people here. There ar...

Thought this was a good read from CRAIN'S A Glenview lawyer sued Zillow, alleging that the real estate site's relatively modest estimate of her home's value has created a "roadblock" to selling at what she thinks it's...

BP Community,
New poster but long time investor here. Looking for some advice from the collective Bigger Pockets Community. Please leave comments as this will be a factor into the future way ahead (your feedback wi...

This has happened twice now in a span of less than 6 months.  The property is a duplex with a tenant living in the upstairs unit and the downstairs unit is presently vacant.  The upstairs tenant overflowed the tub (ag...

Years ago, I had a tenant who's toilet got plugged - but they continued to use it until it overflowed on a weekend and I was the only maintenance guy we had. It was the last toilet I ever worked on... and probably th...