Mike Wilson
New Member in Portland, OR, Beaverton area
Hi BP Community. I just joined and live in the Portland, Oregon area in Beaverton. I have a 8-5 career job and my experience with real estate to date has been a short stint with a commercial real estate developer an...
Ava G.
Tenant asking to replace a new TV, reasonable?
I just got a request from the property manager that the tenant is asking for a 4K quality/resolution TV. The TV in the unit is brand new (32" led tech tv). This is my first ever tenant and am not sure what is reasonab...
Joe Splitrock
IRS Plans to Double in Size - What That Means for Investors
More tax news out of Washington. The administration announced doubling the size of the IRS over ten years. This reverses the trend during the last administration of reducing IRS staff and scaling back the number of au...
Ted Harris
China Bets on US Housing Recovery
China said to be buying U.S. mortgages
The China Investment Corp. is set to invest up to $2 billion in mortgage-backed securities because it considers the housing market set for a recovery.
August...
Stephen Michle
Long distance investing
Hi guys,
Does anybody do long distance investing ? For instance owning property in another country or continent and really counting on property management.
Opinions or experiences, let me know
Susan Tan
How to be OK w/ buying rentals sight unseen from out of state?
As I described in https://www.biggerpockets.com/..., I've purchased this 4plex sight unseen after watching the video tours made by my realtor/property manager, then reading the inspection & appraisal. I trust my ...
Samuel Chua
What happens when a house depreciates? How do I prevent that?
Hi guys, I am interested in buy and hold properties and was wondering what happens if a house depreciates. What are the factors that would cause a house to depreciate? On that note, what should I do when my house depr...
Cody Cook
Newbie Investor from Austin, TX
Hi All,I'm long time reader/listener and recently new PRO member of Bigger Pockets!I grew up in Houston but have been living in Austin the past 5 years (minus a 2 year expat assignment in Singapore). I have a backgrou...
Errol M Tazbaz
Buy really expensive property and rent out for a loss?
Ran an analysis on this one. They are losing $2500/mo assuming 80% LTV and CoC is -11.27%. Assuming 10% appreciation the 5-year annualized return is 31%, but they are speculating that the market will perform like that...
Renee Munro
School District
I'm just getting into looking at flips in the Minneapolis area. My question is, how important is school district when looking at a property? There are several potential flips that otherwise seem worth investigating...