We just took over a 15-unit multifamily here in Portland that is in a great part of town. We knew that it was 50% occupied, but some of the vacancies were due to unfinished work on the property. No problem, we’d rathe...

Hi everyone!I have always thought that the closing process was unecessarily inconvenient and manual. A buddy of mine in tech was telling me how he was playing with the idea of creating a solution to make the closing p...

I have a possible tenant who meets all the requirements but they have mentioned they have MS and that they have had trouble renting due to this. Are there any issues I could run into by renting to this person?

Hey everyone, back again already! Has anybody ever had a home appraise for below the tax assessment amount? Typically there's a pretty big discrepancy, but it's typically one that goes in the opposite direction (tax a...

I'm curious of your thoughts on the Baby Boomer Retirees rental market and smaller properties. I have considered getting into rental property that caters to this group even down to consideration of property layout et...

In what ways does a bank/lender know if you are actually living in your house hack or not? (This is for educational purposes only!)

The value of bitcoin has skyrocketed, has anyone here cashed out yet for REI purposes? It seems ironic to use a highly volatile currency to fund a sometimes volatile industry. As real estate investors, do you find the...

Looking for a little input on snow removal from a multifamily property.  I am in the Buffalo NY area.  I purchased a 3 unit rental property back in September and all 3 units have existing tenants in place from the pre...

I keep getting beaten out on these cash buyers and 1031buyers and it's driving me crazy.  I am actually underwriting correctly: 1. using the property manager's average expense per unit projections ($5000-5500) 2.    u...

planned to cash buy . just wonder if I could leverage a FHA appraisal to make sure everything is safe and probably a lower value for a better negotiation.