Vicky Gu
Any tips on doing due diligence on a vacant raw land in Oakland?
How are you all doing? Any land experts here? Can I get some help on how to perform a due diligence on a vacant parcel? Some basic facts about this land:- located in Oakland CA- it was subdivided in 1991- there are...
Nick Koegen
Clever Minds Needed on First Purchae
Clever Minds of Bigger Pockets,
My name is Nick and I am moving to Austin,TX soon from San Diego. I am out priced here in San Diego and I refuse to put down a 100k down payment on a house until it comes residually fr...
Laurie Chimento
Credit score and misdemeanors
Trying to rent a unit out and still pretty new at this. I have as my baseline requirements a 600+ credit score, no evictions or criminal history. I have a couple who wants to rent and both of them have 550 as score an...
Mike Rosback
Real estate agent investors
Last fall I ended a long career in IT and decided to push ahead with full-time real estate sales and investing. I have been a licensed agent since 2009 but much of that time was as a referral agent and I've had littl...
Patrick Allen
ROI on landscaping: a good investment for my investment?
Here is something that may get some debate going...I am house-hacking a SFH in Tucson, AZ, purchased with a seller-paid downpayment on an FHA loan. My roommate and AirBNB comers-by pay my mortgage for me, so it just l...
Vincent Plant
Buying Tenant Owned Property - Seller wants to keep Security Dep.
I'm in the process of putting together a deal where I am buying 2 twin properties. Its one building but two separate homes side by side and I'm buying them both simultaneously. They are both tenant occupied, and I wil...
Louis Sulek
as the passive JV partner - getting cold feet, please help!
Hello everyone,I'll try to be brief! - I met a lady online who was looking for an equity partner in an AirBnB condo. She does all the management etc, I go on title of mortgage and do all the financing, and we split ca...
Suzanne Chan
Investing in out of state is it necessary to visit prior?
Hi I'm new to investing out of state and am looking at the Cleveland market. My business partner and I have invested in some homes in California and are selling one and doing a 1031 exchange. However through reading a...
Karl Kauper
Evictions in Worcester, Massachusetts Area
What are the laws like in Massachusetts with respect to evictions? For example, if a tenant refuses to leave at the end of a lease, how difficult would it be to get them out? What would be the process, and how long wo...
Brie Schmidt
HELOC payoff strategy
Twice recently people have told me of this new strategy to use a HELOC to pay off your mortgage faster. You essentially take out a HELOC to pay off your first lien, and then use that account to direct deposit your pa...