Matthew Childs
Primer or Paint on Walls to Make Ready to Sell
Paint the walls or leave them with just primer?Here’s the story:My mom had to move out of her house this past spring. It was put on the market but the only offers were real low ball offers from investors. There wer...
Josh Gold
I had an idea about "Syndication", what do you thinK?
Hello Everyone,I'm toying with an idea that I had today and was wondering if the forum would help me shoot holes in it. I'm thinking about a family syndication that would allow the parents (my parents and their sibli...
Chris DeTreville
Enter property where children may be home alone?
I had given 24 hour written notice to a tenant to go in to her house and inspect some work that a contractor had done about a week ago at the owners request. This is in a really bad, low income neighborhood. The ten...
Trim Pershad
Question about LLC business structure
I am a new BP pro member. I am invested in a rental property in partnership through few others and we have formed an LLC (say LLC-Property1) . I am also planning to invest in other investment properties, possibly wit...
Steven Medina
Accounting challenges to Holding LLC
How common and are there significant/sufficient benefits to have a Master Holding LLC own sub LLC's (property deeded to the sub LLC?) We currently have three rental SF properties in two LLC's currently and will have ...
Chris Seveney
Note Investing: Like Watching a Jerry Springer Episode Unfold
In the world of note investing, you never know what you’re going to get. Just when I think I’ve seen it all, a due diligence case like this one lands on my desk. We’re looking at a seven-figure property in Texas, tied...
Yashar Fred
my tenant is asking a combined lease possibility with her fiancé
a potential tenant is asking to be able to sign a lease WITH her fiance so that they meet the income requirement criteria (x3 the rent), What is a good way to do this? She does not want to do a co-signer and is sugge...
Elizabeth A Johnson
Tennant shared space issues
I live on the first floor apartment with my three children just the four of us. We have had several tenants move in and out upstairs and have had a wide range of issues. Nothing like this! There was a couple up stairs...
Gordon Starr
Should I hire my own kids to work for me?
Hey everyone,I am a sole proprietor with a steadily expanding buy and hold portfolio. My kids are age 8 (son) and 10 (daughter). As a single dad with sole custody, the kids have always tagged along in some way - somet...
John Hixon
529 plan or rental properties
I was wondering if I could get some advice from people who know something about finance and investments.I think most people on BP know that if done properly investing in real estate brings better returns then the stoc...