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This one is for the ladies! I’m a newbie, and I’m looking for input from other women on hurdles they have faced in the industry. What have you done to overcome them?
I love connecting with other women and empowerin...
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In your opinion, is 30% a reasonable fee to pay a property manager to do the following:
- Arrange for interior designer/furnishing property (actual expenses I have to pay)
- Promote/advertise rental and respond to a...
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Hi all,First-time homeowner (duplex) with first-time problems. Looking for advice on either heating or tenant-relations.I bought an up-down duplex in Minnesota in March of this year and moved into one unit, renting th...
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I recently had a post "Out of State Investing-SCAM! False promise land of cash flow".https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/351...I may have given the wrong message that out of state investing is not a good wa...
At a private fund raiser ( Bush was secretly video taped on a cell phone ) Bush JOKES about Wall Street and the housing meltdown. The video is now on the internet.
He really sounds DRUNK him self!
http://news.bbc.co...
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I'm sure all the "flippers" out there read the subject and said, "That's not true!". I would say it all depends. The reason I'm writing this is because as I was speaking with a "short sale expert", she informed me t...
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When screening tenants, in addition to running a credit report, checking landlord references, and checking bad tenant databases I also try to check the applicant's social media accounts. Some people have their account...
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I'll try to keep this short...Have done 3 mailings ( a combination of yellow letters, hand written and stuffed in pretty envelopes letters, postcard mailings). Total cost approximately $2,500. Response rate roughly 1-...
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Listening to people beat up on the young folks for having their student loans paid off. Look at this people born between 81 and 96 are getting poorer while the rest of us are getting richer. What this is really sayi...
Am a NY licensed contractor who moved out here to LA county barely a year ago.. my CA contractor license is still pending. So in the mean time, I been keeping busy with working on my own properties and a few small lan...