I’m two days from closing on my first rental property and I just found out that the property’s basement flooded for the second time in the last week. The property is an over/under duplex, and we have had excessive amo...

Hello Bigger Pockets Community,
My name is Caleb, I'm 33, and I'll be as blunt and honest as possible. I don't like to sugar coat things and I would appreciate any and all blunt and honest advice/criticism. I'm a bra...

Hello,As a disclaimer, I have not read any discussions nor watched the Overview Video on how to get started in real estate. Now with that being said, where should someone start who has no capital, a 650 credit score a...

Hello folks - I purchased my house in Aug 2018 in NJ. It is a single family two story home with a basement. The house was constructed in 2000. It has a sloping backyard elevation coming to the back of the house. The p...

Hey all,
I just wanted to say reading post on BP has been a great help. I've been working on buying a rental property for the past year (during college) and now that I have graduated and gotten a promotion at work I f...

To end the confusion once and for all we need to put a cold hard stop to using the terms of hard money and hard money lenders. Private Money can be lent by individuals and institutions. The hard money industry was the...

So, I have a basement that has cracked walls, and there is humidity in the basement.I got quotes from a few different companies. Quotes were in the area of $10-25K to waterproof the basement.But I noticed something a ...

We're currently in closing on this property outside of Farmville, Virginia. We purchased this property from a friend that we have purchased from before. She has a HUGE portfolio (30+) of houses that are in significant...

Something has been bothering me. This phrase, "war zones". Am I the only one? Real people actually live in these places that are so casually and and narrowly characterized by this phrase. I'm not discounting that some...

My neighbor's basement is flooding after some pretty heavy rain over the past week. They have called a basement guy out, who would solve the problem by jackhammering up the cement floor in the basement, digging a tren...