Like a lot of newbies here, I was surprised to find that operating expenses run about 50% of your rent collections. My question is, what do you do with all that money. Obviosuly you are not spending hundreds of dolla...

Family owns a property in NYC. We are thinking about selling it and investing in Tampa through a 1031 Exchange. What areas in Tampa do you recommend for a decent cash flow. We want to buy single family homes for rent....

I have been doing a lot of searches on the BP forum about appliances for rental properties. I am really surprised to see that some landlords do not provide appliances. I am located in New Hampshire and I have never re...

Hoboken/Downtown JC have seen some robust appreciation growth over the past 5 years or so.  I'm wondering whether investors feel that we are at or close to the top of the market in the area or if we'll continue to see...

Hi everybody,I wanted to provide the forums with some general information pertaining to an apartment complex + 1 house I'm considering purchasing. Each of you can do your own math and figure up what your offer would b...

Is it smart to hire my realtor as my property management being that they own a property management business? Or is it smarter to keep my realtor and property management separated. Im thinking its seems convenient to h...

In most markets short term rental supply is high. And a big issue is that a good amount of the supply is from new 'investors' chasing what they thought was a get-rich-quick scheme. So the market not only has an unbala...

I'm thinking about going the "buy, hold and rent" route in investing and was wondering what exactly is needed to rent out to tenants. Do I need contracts, a lawyer, property manager or is it just a person to person th...

I was running some numbers on a property to get some experience in running numbers and I noticed that the property that I was looking at did not have a dish washer. I thought that by adding a dishwasher, the rent coul...

Hello all,A newbie doing different kinds of marketing and can't really say that it is going great. Recently found a deal and the owner looks motivated to sell the property after the issues she had with  tenants. Last ...