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Hi there everyone, this will be my first post. So my wife and I have a rental property in an "up and coming area" of Miami. We've had inconsistent bookings on Airbnb and VRBO. The guest's that we do get generally get...
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Hey BP Forum! When you purchase a buy and hold property do you believe in making only necessary repairs or do you go in and gut the place even if it doesn’t help your ROI? I’ve been going back and forth on thi...
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Howdy BP Family, I feel as though I have gained a year of experience worth of being an AirBnB host in a week. For over a year I have been working on building a garage apartment in my backyard in the Houston Heights n...
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I'll try to keep this short, but it's a lot to explain. So I have 10 acres with my house in the country in Texas. Appraised at 83,000 two weeks ago. I owe 37,000. I can pull out around 25,000 in equity on a refi. We ...
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To all of you who have short term rentals I would appreciate your thoughts and advice on rehabbing a property for a short term rental. I have a duplex where one half has been fixed up and is very clean and nice and I...
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Hey guys,Struggling with planning the furnishing of my STR. How do you all deal with ordering things for your STR and getting them set up in the correct way? I have boots on the ground as in my agent out there. But I ...
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So I am extremely interested in STR investing. I have a close friend that is successful at investing in a couple STR as passive income on the side and I am highly interested in doing the same. I have seen some of his ...
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Hi All, I am a new STR owner in the Phoenix/Tempe/Mesa area. I have set up my listing on both Airbnb and VRBO but I haven't received any traffic on Airbnb and on VRBO I received some inquiries and booking...
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Rehabbing a 1930's bungalow. There is tile present on the walls of the dining room, which is the most central room of the first floor. The tile is in decent shape.Creeping on my rehab budget and would prefer to not de...