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My husband and I have built a real estate portfolio over the past 25 years for a long term buy and hold. We are happy with it and now are considering to dive into short term rentals. Advice?
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This is a question from a friend,so I don't have all the details. Their tenant claimed the apartment was unbearably loud from other tenants, so the owner tried adding carpet in the unit above, enforced quiet hours et...
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Hey guys, just a new member here. From Princeton area, have a few properties in Jersey, looking increasingly to Philly area for multi-family investment. Finding it difficult to gauge Philly neighborhoods that will mai...
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I have seen multiple threads and discussions on BP surrounding the questions of reserves. SO, I won't ask the same question again but pose it from a different angle. If all of the following happened to you, do you fee...
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Hello all, I'm located in MA. Hoping someone with some state-level context can chime in here. Had a lease with a tenant in one of my apartments which ran through 4-30-2024. They asked a few months back about possibili...
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Hey Everyone,I'm having issue with my tenant in regarding my current SFR. I got a call last week that there was a clog in the toilet, he tried to plunge but didn't work so we called the plumber to snake it and found o...
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Question for my multi family investors. In this particular scenario, I have a duplex and each side have 2 dogs. Neighbor A's dogs are never leashed and neighbor b's dogs are always leashed. A's dog ran after bs dog an...
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What is the best practice when it comes to requesting Renter's Insurance, to have the Property Manager listed as an "Interested Party" on the policy, or listed as an "Additional Insured" on the policy, or both?
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Big news hit the mortgage world today. It looks like Bank of America is in talks to buy Countrywide:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080110/wall_street.html
Thoughts?
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Folks saying that “nearly a third” of rents weren't paid seem to get that from this WSJ article. I think this is far overblowing the reality for most landlords here on BiggerPockets.
To kick things off, the dataset u...