When learning how to invest in real estate successfully, most people struggle finding four things: mentors, contractors, deals, and funding. That’s why today we’re excited to bring back Matt and Liz Faircloth onto The...
Max Aviles
Newbie from Huntington Beach, California
Hello BiggerPockets Community!My name is Max Aviles and I currently live in Huntington Beach, California. I am currently 100% newbie at real estate investing. I am currently work as a Software Engineer in Long Beach b...
Paul Sandhu
Thawing frozen water pipes?
This is an appropriate time of the year for a post like this. How do you deal with frozen plumbing pipes in your STR?About 12 months ago I had 3 houses with a frozen main water line. There was no water coming from an...
Michael Oliver
Question Regarding using lease for funding
Long story short-ish:I have a current mortgage and my DTI is too high, but the thing is an amazing STR. Would do 5k a year easily. Has a flavor for all seasons.But I have to live there. Im trying to move out so it ...
Young Moon
Depreciation is standing in the way!
Hi all - I am in the process of negotiating a 28 unit apartment and the seller is telling me that he may not be able to do the deal because of the tax hit that he would take upon sale. He has been depreciating the pr...
Anthony Theokary
Neighbor parking car on my property I just bought.
Hi all. I just got to my property and noticed a truck parked on my property that's not familiar. Apparently it's the neighbors. Hope do I go about legally getting him off my property?
Gary Dezoysa
Materials for learning direct mail?
Hi all,I'm curious what everyone is doing to learn how to turn out successful direct mail campaigns. Any suggestions
Aubrey Ford
Purchasing community well
So one of the properties I own gets it water from a community well. The well serves about 74 properties (some lots are vacant) of which currently 40 are paying and the owner estimates as many as 18 may be stealing wa...
Cindy Shen
Risks of qualifying for mortgages on behalf of someone else?
I know it's not too big of a problem in US as you can keep buying houses as long as you can get the downplay cash, but in Canada with the super tight qualification it's very hard to qualify for mortgages now, especial...
Mark K.
Evictions for non-paying renters who refuse to sign affidavit
Can we evict our tenants if they refuse to sign the hardship affidavit? We have not received rent from them for 4 months. We left them the affidavits to sign but they never sent them back to us or mentioned it when I ...