Stephen David Smith Jr.
Stephen Smith Agent Sarasota FL
Stephen moved to South Florida from Greenville North Carolina in 2013. He studied Business Management and Economics at East Carolina University, all the while working within his fathers custom home building company as...
Kay Ferdous
Converting single family home?
I live in Long Island, NY area and I was wondering how difficult is to buy duplex single family homes that needs rehab or is foreclosed and convert them to multi family. I.e. Add a second entry to second floor add kit...
Elizabeth Wilson
MLGW utilities in your company name
Hey Memphis folks - Has anyone had any luck have an MLGW account open in your company's name. I've been going back and forth with them with no luck. I won't begin to tell you how much time I've wasted on this. Wou...
George Smith
Looking to partner up
Hi BiggerPockets Family!for the past few months I have been building up my team with real estate agents/brokers. hard money lenders, but no partner as of yet. I wanted to offer my sweat equity for anyone who has a nee...
Sean Comp
CO inspection problem
I am trying to get CO for my first rental property. The CO inspector told me ”that he was being more harsh cause it’s a rental property and they don’t want tenant calling them complaining about things” he proceeded to...
Bienes Raices
Employers charging fee to verify tenant employment?
I went to verify an applicant's employment today and the employer had outsourced this function to a company called "Work Number". Work Number charges a $17 processing fee to verify the employment and income.
Has anyo...
Sandy Uhlmann
Should I still ask for SSN if I plan to screen using SmartMove or other tenant initiated screening service?
I am using a pretty standard rental application form (Nolo) which asks for SSN. I was wondering if I should still have prospective tenants fill this out if I plan to use tenant initiated screening services such as...
Stacy Davis
Known Lead Issue In NH
I was wondering if I could get some help. Found a 3 family property in Concord, NH. Just before we were going to put in an offer we were told there was a known lead issue from back in 1999. We now hesitate to put an o...
Brendon Woirhaye
Los Angeles County Rent Control
As many of you know, Proposition 10 is on the ballot for November, and if passed, it would repeal Costa-Hawkins which significantly prevents individual cities from imposing rent control. It is shaping up to be a majo...
William Shea
Newbie Investor from MA
Hi BP,I am a new investor from MA looking to start my journey to Financial Independence through buy and hold investing. I am currently a site supervisor for a site development and concrete company. While the pay and b...