Kris Haskins
Craigslist Scam finally got me good
So I had one of my rentals on craigslist with a lockbox on the front door. I've been using lock boxes for 10 years. I had a rental on the market for a few weeks giving out the code to people to look inside. Yesterd...
Mary Ainsworth
Furnishing a property out of state/long distance?
Hello! I'm about to close on a 4 unit and I'm trying to furnish two of them as MTR's but I'm out of state. I wanted to ask if anyone's furnished a property remotely before - who helped you set up the furniture? I've c...
Logan M.
Will low interest rates cause the market to crash upwards?
I have been seeing a lot of people starting to talk about rates coming down and prices shooting up.Is this what 2024 and 2025 will look like?I am very worried about affordable housing and what is going to happen if su...
Todd Whiddon
New Construction - Vacant Lot to Showstopping Success!
Here's another project we are just wrapping up and it involved so many "Firsts" for me I figured I'd share. Most of the new construction I've done in and around Atlanta has been Infill teardown which didn't involve m...
Daniel Keating
managing some properties for a friend-not getting paid as planned
Hi Folks, I live in Tucson and have 2 rental properties I own and manage. A friend of mine owns 5 rentals in town and he lives in Payson--about a 3 hour drive so I look over his properties.
Originally the plan was tha...
Lloyd Segal
Economic Update (August 31 - September 4, 2020)
Economic Update
(Monday, August 31, 2020)
The US economy got crushed in the second quarter, with the worst decline in real GDP for any quarter since the Great Depression. However, the good news for real estate...
Robert Richardson
Our first rental property, a work in progress
My wife and I purchased our first investment property on March 1st, 2017. It is an ambiguous sized apartment building (2 or 3 units) with tenants in place that needs a ton of work. Here are some of the numbers:Purch...
Gary Wallace
Rental with no working oven or stove
As a landlord, how much would you expect to credit your tenant if the oven and stove stopped working and you couldn't replace it for 40 days? The tenant is a family of three and has to order out or dine out almost eve...
Michael Plaks
EXPLAINED: Depreciation - myths & reality
Years ago, I was at a CPA conference, and the lecturer finished 30 minutes early. Unheard of, I know, but it did happen. He asked us what we wanted to learn in the remaining 30 minutes. And 300 CPAs in the room almost...
Chadwick Cotner
Help me convince my significant other RE Investing is beneficial
BP Members,
I am relatively new to RE investing and looking to start building my RE portfolio (multi family and/or SFH). I have had one prior property (SFH) that happened out of necessity rather than informed invest...