James Brand
BP LETS TALK CEILING FANS!
Okay so I have held that the more amenities you offer in a rental that can break easily, the more time/money a unit will cost you. I lump ceiling fans into this equation and I was planning on removing the outdated one...
Okey Lawrence
How to Turn a 3 bedroom home into a student rental
Hi looking for some input. I own a 3 bedroom home in a nice neighborhood . Centrally located in a college town. Similar houses in this area have been converted to student rentals. The area is not oversaturated. My 3 b...
Tracey G.
College House Hack Lease Advise
I bought a house near the college my son attends - house hacking via his college fund. He is going to live there with three friends. The plan is that my son and I will be listed as the landlords and the other three w...
Tim Wilkinson
questionable landlord practices
Hello BP,Although I am an investor, currently the home my wife and I live in is leased to us. As part of the lease agreement, the LL retained one of our three attached garages unavailable to us. It is all open inside,...
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Adopt A Newbie
Hello All! My husband and I are just getting started in the Real Estate business. So far, we've just really been educating ourselves. We recently attended the Robert Shemin 3 day foreclosure conference and it was inde...
Tim Rostro
Diving into Commercial Real Estate
Hello BP Community,
I have been a residential investor for the last 10 years with a small portfolio of 5 properties, in TX and OH, a mix of SFH and duplexes. I've decided to take the next big step and scale up even ...
Andrew Bjorklund
Inherited tenant that needs to go
My wife and I are buying our first multi-family home and expect to close soon (yay!). We will be house-hacking a tri-plex. One unit is empty that we will live in and the other two units have long time tenants. Both te...
Austin Bull
First time buyer in Arizona!
My name is Austin, I'm 26, and I'm planning on buying my first property ever in Arizona in the Phoenix Metro area. I'm looking to house hack in order to get my REI snowball rolling. I'm most familiar with the east val...
Steven Andrews
Raising rents or tenants paying utilities. Which is harder?
Looking at a couple of different possible multifamily properties to buy and two of the properties I'm interested in have me wondering which is best. Property A has tenants paying utilities but the rents are well under...
Paul N.
Hello and first post from TotalNewbie from LI, NY
Hey everyone, I *finally* got a chance to post here after registering a couple of weeks ago. It`s a beautiful snow-stormy morning here on LI -
beautiful because I get the day off from work with pay :D
I`m in a 100...