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Hello BP Community! I'm looking to purchase my first short term rental in an expensive market and was wondering about how many people are able to manage their own properties even potentially clean, fix them. I typical...
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Hello,This community has been so helpful and I have learned so much from your advice! This time I am facing a dilemma with regards to charging some damage I incurred when my tenants' moved out as a result of their lo...
My wife has been in commercial real estate as a property manager for the last couple years. She stepped down recently to have our second child. We have been talking about her switching over to residential. She would o...
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My goal is to purchase my first STR this year or early next. The location I have my eye on is a 3 hr drive from my home in a vacation destination. My question is: How do you know whether to hire a management company o...
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Hello!My name is Victor and I have been a member of bigger pockets for quite a few years at this point. My wife and I are in our 20's and have been working hard at our careers in the hopes of building the capital need...
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Problems like trespassing, conflict, and unwelcome visitors are common to any multifamily unit. And the trouble spots where these occur generally remain consistent across locations.An industry expert on how you can be...
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Cost-effective: Virtual assistants are more affordable than full-time employees.
Time savings: Delegating tasks to a virtual assistant frees up your time to focus on core business activities.
Scalability: Virtual as...
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My wife and I had our second child recently and we are looking to move from the Savannah, GA area closer to the York, PA area near family. We are looking to keep our foot in the area if it makes sense, so we’ve looked...
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I'm Alan Meyer and well, I am not a new member, have been registered here for for over a year but this is my first act of participation. I'm priced out of the market where I life and with both of my grown kids living...
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Greetings everyone,Relatively new reader of this forum. We have been doing LTR for a while some 2000 miles away with a property manager. That is not working out very well (primarily due to the PM) and moving our asset...