Kim Hud
Extended Stays | Long Term Vacation Rentals Does it Work?
Have a space in the fourplex that Im purchasing to setup a vacation rental. Recently learned that the city's zoning prevents short term rentals less than 10 days. So I'm thinking about doing long stays over 10 days li...
Rick Bassett
My ad was cloned - an rare happy ending
This has probably happened to many of us, my advertising text for a property was cloned nearly word-for-word by a local investor in one of his ads for a rental property. Usually, we can't do anything about it except...
Adam Hoffer
Book Recommendations for a College Course
I hope to tap into the hive mind of the BP community to get recommendations for specific real estate books. I am an economics professor and I am developing an upper-level college course on Real Estate Economics. The e...
Jay Berget
Lease option to rent out over-under duplex
Hi everyone,I have come across an over-under duplex that is vacant and has been FSBO for quite a while. It's not a place I really want to live, but I believe it has a rental history and could rent for at least $2200 t...
Michael G.
How to Effectively Market New Rentals
Hello folks.Recently completed a large purchase and rehab of an three unit building in a downtown area. The units were nicely renovated and are brand new top to bottom. This building is located in a city area with ple...
Account Closed
Wholesale real estate
If take the profits of a wholesale deal and do a 1031 exchange and put it into a rental property is that money from the wholesale deal tax deductible
David Krulac
Capital Gains Taxes should be indexed for inflation...
On another topic here at BP, there has been discussion of the Professor Robert Shiller comment that when discounted for inflation, real estate value in real dollars is the same as 100 years ago.
Whether or no...
Lee Common
"I expect to see civil unrest in the U.S." 02/25/09
James Beeland Rogers, Jr. (born October 19, 1942) is an expatriate American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. He is co-founder, along with George Soros, of the Quantum Fund, and is a college profe...
Micaela N. Wolfe
Etiquette for inquiring to purchase a property
I would like to reach out to someone via email if they would be interested in selling an owned property to us. I am wondering if reaching out via email is bad etiquette vs snail mail. Wanted to get a general consensus...
John Pliska
First time on BiggerPockets!
Hey everyone!I'm John, a 25 year old from Wisconsin. Three bad renting experiences and one amazing real estate professor in college ignited my passion for learning more about real estate. I bought my first single fa...