Zach Ballou
When to penalize your contractor ?
So I’m coming to a close on my first single family flip and let’s just say the experience with the contractor has been less than what I had hoped for. Now he is expecting a payment of somewhere between $3500-4500 ( he...
Goretti Fong
Fractional Private Money Loan
Hi BP, my first post here. Thank you for all your comments in advance.I have been a SFH buy and hold investor and am considering this private money lending opportunity. The plan is to acquire two adjoining parcels in...
Travis Davenport
Investor & contractor disagreeing on extent of work for project
My contractor and I have constantly been disagreeing (friendly of course) on the amount of work to complete the project. My mindset (that has worked well for me so far) is make the house cosmetically attractive as fa...
Alex Beaver
Closing with Hubzu Altisource Premium Title
A Hubzu house was going to be my first leap real estate investing. I signed into a purchase with Hubzu November 11, 2014. Cash offer in Indianapolis and my agent advised to use a local title company. Everything went s...
Joseph Delia
Tenant utility respnsibilities in a semi-owner occupied MIL
I may be overthinking this, but I thought it best to call on the infinite wisdom of the awesome BP community.I just purchased an out of state SFH with separate entry MIL basement suite. It's a major city where I do a...
Lena Claybon
BEWARE: Lender Scams!
Hi All, I don't know if this is a big problem on BP but I know of a LOT of cases where its happened in my FB groups. PLEASE beware of lenders with "gmail" addresses (mostly) saying they can get you 4-5% loans for your...
Ranaldo Daggs
PRIVATE LENDER EMAIL SCAM ??? HELP!!!
This is currently happening to me right now. I started moving forward with the 1st Private Lender (Robin Ostrom, claiming to be CEO/Lender for Mortgage Lending Services LLC). We have continually had bad phone connecti...
Account Closed
Checking the Validity of an Investor Group?
Guys & Gals off all shapes and size of bank accounts,,, how do I check to see if an investor group is real and not some slick organization trying to steal money from investors? Thank you.
Ben Kirchner
Home Warranty denying coverage on HVAC
I'm dealing with American Home Shield. The HVAC in my rental property has gone out. Long story short, American Home Shield was told by their subcontractor that there are missing parts - "some wires and the circuit bo...
Bridget Smith-Osbourne
Fire damage to property
Hey BP Members,My situation on hand is my SFR suffered fire damage due to an unattended stove. As per tenant the wrong burner was turned on and a pan of grease left on stove caught on fire. The result is I probably ha...