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Holli Phillips Sold a house on contract and now buyer isn't making payments
11 December 2015 | 48 replies

This past August I sold an investment property to a lady and gave her 2 months before she had to start making payments.  She put $1200 down and have only received one monthly payment of $600.  As of Jan.1, she will ow...

Meryl McElwain Wholesaling-how exactly does it work?
8 January 2019 | 152 replies

I recently heard a remarkable story of a wholesaler claiming they picked up a house for 32,000 and then turned around and flipped it to a contractor for 54,000 within a span of 10 days.

The story is true; which leads...

Maya Gorski Am I impatient? Or, suggestions on how to work with agents?
25 December 2020 | 37 replies

I'm starting my search back up for buy and hold out of state rental properties. My goal is to have multiple.It seems that I'll come across a property I'm interested in and I'll make contact with an agent (found throug...

Coty C. Breaking the Tenant Screening Standards
27 September 2018 | 18 replies

Tenant Screening Standards:
- No previous eviction
- 3x income to rent
- Clean background
- Good references

Hi Everyone,

On biggerpockets these 4 standards for the tenant screening process have been repeated time an...

John Foster Experiences with Lease Options
20 October 2016 | 24 replies

Hey Everyone,

I'm considering lease options as a future investing strategy and am curious to hear others experience with it. Do the tenants often buy the house at the end of the deal? How long do most lease options g...

Anna M. LEASE CHANGES (to include rent raises) BEFORE CLOSING!
25 November 2017 | 11 replies

Tenant’s lease ends 12/31/17. We close 1/2/18. Tenants want to stay. We prefer they use our lease (less vague than existing belonging to property management company running the show currently). So Planning on inheri...

Mac Bradley Eviction of previous owners after foreclosure auction
15 September 2008 | 22 replies

When I buy a house at a trustee foreclosure auction and the previous owners are still in the house, do I need to hire a lawyer to evict them or can I, as the new owner, just show up at the justice of the peace on the ...

Ryan Keith Purchased tax lien house - what to do with previous owners stuff??
21 June 2011 | 13 replies

Hello from Alabama. I'm just curious if anyone else has ever run into a situation where you bought a tax lien property but it was full of the previous owners possessions, although in this case the house has been vacan...

Teddy R Necessity of the Lease in Lease-Option Assignment Deals
23 March 2013 | 8 replies

Greetings BP.

I have been doing a lot of lurking on this site soaking in as much information as I can in the last few months.

I am interested in buying Option to Purchase contracts from motivated sellers then hiring...

Douglas Costello Looking for advice on
18 October 2016 | 20 replies

I recently sent out my first direct mail campaign and I found a motivated seller right off the bat.  She is out of state and not making payments on the house.  The bank has moved in and winterized the property but I d...