Isaiah Fariel
First time investor needing advice
I'm a new investor looking to purchase my first home, we currently live in Raleigh NC. My fiancee and I have about 10k saved up and want to purchase a Duplex and do a house hack. We want to invest in hopefully the Ral...
Zee Ayezain
Replacing leaky sink garbage disposal against code?
Hi there, one of my properties in Washington DC has a leaky garbage disposal. I told the plumber to go check it out and if he can fix it great but if he has to replace it then to just remove it all together and not re...
Account Closed
Diary of my latest flip
I'm going to use this thread to track the progress of my current flip project. This house is in the Hickory NC area. The house was an REO listed in the MLS. It is a split level ranch with 3 bedrooms 1.5 baths and a fu...
John Bucknum
first deal/mobile home park?
HI all, just getting started, looking for first deal. I found a MHP locally FSBO, it is 34 units over 7 acres, city water, with septic tanks which owner claims to empty yearly. asking $800k, brings in $91k/year, accor...
Kamil Kisielewicz
Best Place to House Hack for Software Engineer?
Hi All,
I'd like to start by saying thank you to anyone taking the time to read this post and reply! This is my first post on BiggerPockets. I've been reading financial books on real estate and stock investing. I jus...
Ed L.
Heat pump vs. Straight electric vs. Natural Gas??
Closing on another rental property tomorrow. Older 3br. 1ba home built in the 1960's.
Home currently has natural gas central unit with "NO" central cooling. The only cooling comes from window units. Pretty unusu...
Brenda Budzinski
Tenant runs a daycare from rental property.
I have a potential tenant, single mother who plans to run her daycare business at our rental property. She has up to 5 children on any given day all under the age of 4yrs old. What are the pros vs. cons?
Dale K Poyser
Added second bathroom without a permit, am I screwed?
Hey BP community,My gf bought a condo 3 years ago. The condo is 900 sqft 1bd 1 bath with a loft. We added a full bathroom to the loft area so now the condo is 1bd 2bath with a loft. The next step is to enclose the lof...
Caitlin Daniel
Is the market too hot to jump in now? (Spokane)
Brand new, just got my approval loan papers last week and have seen 5 duplexes, run about 10 numbers/reports things to see how good of an investment it would be, and submitted one offer. (Which got outbid by 25% in ca...
Justin Hanson
New investor financing
I currently have a house under a mortgage and am having a very difficult time finding a way to finance an investment property. There is no chance we can qualify for conventional in our area as anything over 200k will ...