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I gotta tell you. I'm frustrated. Maybe I'm alone. However, sometimes it feels as though I am the ONLY one who seems to "get it." As a Realtor®, I recognize the inherent brainwashing that goes on in the industry wi...
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Often, prospective tenants will come and request a certain demand. - “ Well, can you paint this a different color “ - “ Well, what about the outside, will you update the gardens? “ - what about the dust? Seems dusty e...
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Hi BP. Not too long ago, I took an opportunity to learn a bit about foreclosures. The information sounded interesting at the time, but now that I think about it, I'm having trouble making it make sense.So, say you obt...
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Hello Fellow BP'ers!So, I've been renting to the same tenants going on 3 years! Exciting, yes. Everything has been fairly uneventful with them - except for having to replace the whole HVAC system the first summer they...
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Hey BP! I just wanted to share my experience on my first flip in Phoenix, AZ! When I say this is my first flip, this isn't counting the previous live-in flips that I had previously done (which was fantastic for lear...
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Colleagues and friends,The original GOP reform thread started by @Brandon Hall is well over 200 posts by now. This is one of the follow-up threads specifically for discussion of new creative tax planning strategies, i...
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So I have a bedroom I am trying to rent out and I have been getting emails from a woman that claims to be in a remote fishing village in Alaska right now and is moving to Austin. She says they don't have phone service...
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I have a motivated seller which I need help to structure the deal. Her husband who is the main bread provider passed away in May and she has been struggling to keep up with the house payment.
The house was bu...
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I'm looking to move into commercial multifamily in the near future and curious about a few things. With there being several barriers to entry, coming up with a large down payment being one of them, I'm wondering how m...
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I bought this home from an HOA foreclosure auction. The house is worth $650,000 (conservatively). The previous homeowner took out a mortgage for $275,000. Since I bought it from an HOA foreclosure auction, I know the ...