Dale Osborn
How Safe is Wall Street Investments?
With millions of baby boomers getting ready to retire between the years of 2012 to 2016, just how comfortable are you leaving your money invested on Wall Street? The demand to buy pushes prices upwards. With these ret...
Andy Petzold
Tenant Refuses Fridge for Fear of Ghosts - What would you do?
A few days ago a tenant reported reported that her refrigerator was performing poorly and didn't seem to be cooling as well as it once had. She complained of food spoiling quickly and frozen items partially thawing. T...
Glenn Mcgrath
Fix Roof leak or replace the roof?
Hello,
Tenant informed me that the ceiling is dripping water. Turned out It required a torrential rain for me to discover that there is a leak in my rental somewhere perhaps in the roof . I am newbie and have had so...
Brady Boyer
Getting Started - Airbnb rental
Hi All,I wanted to get a second opinion on this topic. I recently graduated from college, and am currently living in NYC. I started with about 90K in student debt and now have under 40K left to pay. I am saving each...
Loring Hinds
Renting former principal residence- first time landlord
I have purchased a new home and intend to rent my current house. Cash flow will be neutral to slightly positive, but the Tampa market seems to be finally rebounding. My goal is to capture the appreciation that will ...
Yusuf Mathai
Putting a Team together
So this is my first foray into tapping into the collective wisdom of bigger pockets.I am just starting out in real estate, and this will be my chosen vehicle towards financial independence. I do have a day job that I ...
Tom V.
How I made almost a million dollars on my “first” house renovation
BackgroundI have learned a lot from people on the BiggerPockets boards and I wanted to offer some of my experience in the hope that someone else could find some useful information. I started following the real estate ...
Donald Zeller
The Flipping Formula - sat through 2 hour seminar and
walked out during the break to do some homework before shelling out the $2k they wanted to attend the 3 day bootcamp. They said we would get our money back if we didn't triple the tuition amount in 6 months. Though th...
Justin Mathews
Major decision on commercial property
I have an urgent decision that I could use help on... My wife and I bought an 11,000 ft² Warehouse space and have white boxed it. It appraises for $800,000 and as of today we have about $550,000 into it with renovatio...
Account Closed
settled sidewalk slab
Hello all,
My rental property has a sunken concrete slab on the sidewalk in front of the property.
Anu ideas on How to fix this in a cheap/effective way. It seems too deep for quikrete.
The property is in H...