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Hello BiggerPockets community. It's been a long time since I've posted, so bear with me... I'm a little rusty. I'm under contract to purchase a multi-unit property in the Richmond Virginia area. I live in Northern Vir...
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I self manage a single family home as a rental in St. Paul, Minnesota. Three women signed the lease together last summer and have been good tenants since then for the most part. About a week before January 1st, one ...
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Hi, I'll try to keep this short. We have had a 60 year old single female renter since 12/18. We have since found out that she is an alcoholic. Most recently, she was drunk and was yelling out the window that she was l...
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How much of your rental property cashflow should you live off of? For example, if I cashflow around $30k/month, how much of that should I ACTUALLY be spending on my lifestyle? What percentage should go towards my pers...
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I just put in an offer on a house that I plan to live in and flip over 2 years. However, the house was in the middle of a "rehab" when the owner lost his job...and so parts of the house are torn apart. If I win on thi...
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I recently purchased a 10 unit apartment building in Long Beach, CA and my strategy is to do a value add. The exterior of the building has a decent amount of cosmetic deferred maintenance (needs landscaping, exterior ...
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Hello everyone, from Arkansas. We are a small family who are still a bit new to property investing. We purchased our first home in 2010 and rented it out a couple of years later due to a job change. Since then, we hav...
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Hey guys.I just got my first house under contract (!!!) and I'm equal parts excited and terrified. As a result, I'm turning to the Bigger Pockets community in the hopes that I can get some outside opinions on what the...
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Last year I posted a thread “It’s 2018–Whatcha Gonna Do About It?” and it got a lot of great response. So why not do it again? Every year around this time I see threads on BP asking about your goals for the coming n...
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New people ask all the time, "What now? and "How do I Do This . . ."and they Say, “I have Analysis Paralysis" and "I’m Just Getting into Real Estate" and "How Do I get Started"...