Erik Kamatro
Realtor Safety Guide
Great article on Realtor Safety. "On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 representing absolute confidence in your safety), how would you rate your safety as a real estate agent?Are you doing the utmost to keep yourself, your ...
Glen Wiley
mange yourself or use a PM
I see a lot of talk about the importance of hiring a property manager (PM) rather than self managing. For 20 years I have managed my own properties so I wanted to offer some thoughts on the advantages of self managing...
Holly Barrett
Self Managing from a Distance
Looking at a duplex 8 hour drive away. I want to self manage, BUT I'm getting tripped up on how to show prospective tenants the units at turnover.What options might we have?Realtor fees for showing are steep, at that ...
Greg Brown
Should I keep tenants that came with the house?
So I recently bought my second duplex, which came with existing tenants in both units. Both of the tenants have aspects that I'm not thrilled about (less than clean living habits), but the tenants on one side just set...
John Becker
Please offer me feedback on my current property manager
Hello, I have jumped into investing in single family homes in Northwest Indiana, in Lake county. I now own 11 homes, and have been working with a property manager that I personally do like. I would like to explain ...
Will Gates
Help me convince wife this is a good deal... or tell me I'm wrong
Good day, BP members!My wife and I have started the process of reading everything in sight on BP, listening to forums, reading books, analyzing potential deals.. we're about 3-4 weeks into this process, so we're still...
Dan H.
San Diego capital expenses
I recently read on Bigger Pockets a post on Capital expenditures that included some generic numbers. http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/10/13/real-estate-capex-estimate-capital-expenditures/The numbers did ...
Rizki Setia
How to evict really ill tenant ?
Hi Everyone,I am newbie here, I bought triplex 2 years ago and came with one of really sick tenant and he live by himself. 2 years ago his ill was not that bad but gotten worse reasonly and he is in wheel chair, the ...
Jeannette G.
Are there investor/contractor that will swap two homes for one?
Hi everybody...I have a very unique situation that has become nearly impossible to find a solution to. I have been looking for a home in the 90808 Long beach area or Cypress and La Palma. It's a small circle of where ...
Susana L.
Big Bear Lake Vacation Rental
Hello Friends!I am very interesting in purchasing a small cabin up in Big Bear. I would like to use it personally only a couple times a year and rent it out as a vacation rental the rest of the year. I would like to...