Hello BP commmunity! My family and I live in NELA (Highland Park/Eagle Rock) and have an illegal ADU in our backyard (studio, approx 400SQFT, bathroom, no kitchen). We don't now exactly when it was built but it's prob...

Didn’t they tell us years ago that we’d be a “paperless society” in the near future? Somebody forgot to tell the real estate industry. There must be a form for every single step in the selling process. In all fairness...

Is now a good time to invest in rental properties?

BP Community -I'm happy to say I just purchased my first STR in Phoenix! It's right neat the airport and very centrally located between DT Phoenix, Old Town Scottsdale, and ASU in Tempe. The property is most definitel...

Hello BP. Ian Skelton from Savannah, GA I've been "investing" (notice the quotes) for about 12 years, but didn't know what I was doing. So long story, short it went fairly badly. From calls at 2am to unlock the house ...

Does anyone have a copy of a rental agreement that you have guests sign before staying in your short term rental that you can share? I tried searching on the bigger pockets forms section but that seemed more geared to...

Hi All,

I want a visual display of specific properties that meet my criteria on a city map to help me with my sub-market research. Does anyone have a recommendation for a mapping utility that will enable ...

I just posted a new blog on this topic. I hope you find it useful...https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/7697/50523-thr...

Last year I bought my first two rental properties in Michigan. I've been keeping paper receipts in folders all year (gutted and rehabbed them), didn't really have the time earlier to do anything else with them. Now I ...

Any tips on getting tenants to read their lease? Sure we can make them comply but it would be nice if they knew what was in their lease so we aren't the 'bad guy' enforcing aspects of the lease they were willfully una...