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Anyone have experience with purchasing a vacation rental during a pandemic like this? Any current experiment or previous experience with vacation rentals and having fluctuating times throughout the year of being rente...
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Hello investors! I'm looking to start my rental portfolio and have been hearing more and more about the medium term rental play, which interests me. I'm a broker out of Raleigh looking for good areas to start an MTR. ...
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Morning BiggerPockets community!I hope everyone is doing well and thriving. I am currently on the market to purchase my first investment property which will be a STR and am extremely excited to finally jump in!With th...
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Hi BP Community,
I am interested in investing in Cleveland, OH, around the Wakefield/Detroit Shoreway/Edgewater area to be more specific. I want to buy a duplex and have each unit serve as MTR for traveling nurses or...
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Hi, We had to call VRBO for a bill that they are charging us and this is how I found out that VRBO charges 10% commission for any booking that was made outside their platform. They said that they have access to extern...
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Hello BP! I'm new here and have a goal of making my first real estate investment by the end of 2020! Given the market in my area (SF Bay Area) I'm mostly looking at investing out of state. I work a full time job and w...
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I have a 3 bedroom + office (or really small 4th bedroom) house that I have been renting out long term for about 10 years. It's located in a good neighborhood near a well respected hospital. I'm thinking it might ma...
Hello,I would like to ask everyone's advice on something. My name is Nathan and I am a new member to bigger pockets. My wife and I started listening to bigger pockets podcasts within the last two months after reading ...
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So after 10 years in my profession my wife and our 8 kids (yes 8 kids) have decided to travel for a year or so in our very large RV. With 200k in the bank (150 invest, 50 travel) we would like to move from just stock...
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I've been looking at short term rentals in a few different markets. Not quite ready to pull the trigger, but will be in the next 5 or 6 months. I was initially interested in buying a 1bd/1ba condo near downtown Nashvi...