Dear BiggerPockets Community,I need some guidance / advice.But first, I just want to apologize for being completely absent on this platform for the past few months. I entered escrow on a property back in mid-April, an...

Being that there are many more wrong ways to accomplish a given task than there are right ways I thought a thread covering some of the "donts" might be useful for those just getting their feet wet in repairs and renov...

How to help my 17 year old son get started in real estate?Let me start off by saying that I have personally been doing real estate for over 20 years andI realize a lot of people are going to say “ tell him to go to th...

Hi everybody!!! I stumbled across Bigger Pockets a few months ago from a personal finance podcast I was listening to that mentioned the Bigger Pockets podcast which I then gave a listen to, which lead me here. I have ...

I was just doing some cleaning and found a bid I had gotten a couple years ago from my (former) plumber of mine to do some basic work on my personal residence. I saved it because I planned to start this thread one da...

Just throwing this out there, but does anyone know any buyers or sellers of D2 or JP54? Also if you do any types of trade we should talk.

My first property has had two whammy's against it. #1 Numerous repairs from day 1.   Partly due to the property but partly due to a finicky tenant.#2  Property manager tells me the roof needs to be replaced - $4500 co...

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Tenant has made multiple trivial maintenance requests and are forcing the maintenance request to be done via rent escrow in the court, we have fixed some, and some of the others, we are in the midst o...

How can a newbie do this without hiring estimators each time, and making the process cost prohibitive?