Steven McPherson
Who here has started from scratch?
Just a question for other BP members: who all on this board have started their RE business from nothing? That means you had no money and no personal savings to put in to marketing, down payments, etc.Follow-up questi...
Levi T.
Towing Tenant Vehicles When Rent Is Late
I had this idea I've been malling for about 5 years now, it's related to car title loans with process collections, it's always been complicated so I never got past the legal phase... but then the other evening it hit ...
Danny Maller
What to do about groups of people loitering around my building?
I'm a month into house hacking my 3 unit and I can't get people to rent because of the crowd of random people hanging out on the side walk between my place and the liquor store just north of me. I never saw anyone out...
Natalie Cloutier
Coronavirus: email to send to your tenants
I got a lot of questions on my Instagram yesterday about the email we wrote to our tenants addressing this outbreak so I decided to include the letter we wrote here in case it helps anybody :) I think a lot of landlor...
Jim K.
Six days before leasing signing, ceiling caves in!
Picture it...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home of old houses with serious problems and the people who live in them. At the end of October, the bathroom sink upstairs springs a leak. The leak flows across the tile floor a...
Stefanie Jensen
I want to buy a rental now, my husband wants to wait a see.
I have my real estate license, I study the market. I read all the great investing books, I listen to the bigger pockets podcast religiously. I am so ready to let our money work for us, instead of us working for our m...
Toyin Dawodu
Buy and Hold, Does It Really Make Sense?
I was once a buy and hold investor. Then one day, my light was turned off by the power company, in the house I lived in.How could that happen? I had 40 houses, but I was always robbing Peter to pay Paul. Edison, the p...
Devin W.
Poop Patrol is a real thing
I just heard about PooPrints. I'm not a landlord yet but the issue of pet owners picking up after their pets is a personal pet peeve of mine. PooPrints is a DNA service that registers tenants' dogs and then compares p...
Vijaianand Thirunageswaram
Unknown part on Closing Cash Deal Myself
HelloI am trying to find the unknown part when trying to close the cash deal yourself. I know you can get title search done via website. you can eRecord using Simplifile. Missing part is, is there a service to find t...
Anna Catron
TEXAS 50(a)(6) impeding investment property refi
I was just told by one of the mortgage lenders sponsored by BP, that in Texas, COVID has messed up refi rules.
Per her, TEXAS 50(a)(6), says that investments can only be refi'd IF the house was a primary WITH a home...