Kay March
Electric car fire risk in rental housing
After reading reports of serious, damaging fires caused by electric car batteries, I'm considering disqualifying potential tenants who have electric cars and putting a clause in my lease prohibiting electric cars and ...
Tyler Daly
Too Aggressive With My Roth IRA Contributions?
For context, a quick background.I’m 23 years old, just graduated from college, making 45k a year (going to be relatively open here about finances because I want the most accurate feedback)I have about 60k in student l...
Amy Greenwood
Damage agreement for STR
I use direct booking for my short-term rental, but also several channels like Airbnb. With direct booking we have a security deposit that places is a hold on the guest credit card until after they leave. However, with...
Jacob Ross
House hack with the Va loan
Hey everyone, I have a question. I am a veteran and I want to use my VA loan to house hack with 0% down. Has anyone here ever done something like this before? If so, could you please share your story and explain how y...
Dainmeyen Brown
Househacking a quadplex in an appreciation market
Question: Currently searching for a quaplex to househack in an appreciation market. All of what I've learned says if you're not receiving positive cash flow, DON'T DO IT. However of all the properties I've seen and an...
Paul Parker
Land Banks.... Good or Bad for RE Investors
Are Land Banks The Governments way of geeting involved in Real Estate investing?.....There are 170 communities now operating formal land bank programs across the country as of date in the United States. There are 13 s...
Julian Broyles
MTR Setting Up
Hello all, I am located in Phoenix Arizona. I am getting started in the midterm rental scene and wanted to gauge experience where anyone has started in setting up midterm rentals. I've spoken to two companies that doe...
Ashley Wolfe
Buying a large house to turn it into a duplex
Hey BP,I'm looking around at a lot of SFH properties that are on the MLS in my area under $100K. I came across one today that is very interesting. Its a 1957, 2-story, 3,000+ sq ft 6/3/2 on the market currently for ...
Sean Autry
Cost of Garage Conversion
Hi BP Community- I’m looking at a deal in Hesperia, CA. It’s a duplex separated in the middle by a 2 car garage and a one car garage (both are enclosed, this is one continuous structure). I want to covert both garage...
Mike Roy
Dishwasher ROI
I'm closing on a 4-plex this month and none of the units have a dishwasher. I'm in a "utilities included" kind of market and am paying water/sewer. I was wondering if any of you have added dishwashers and have seen ...