Justin R.
Flipping mobile homes - what am I missing?
First, I plead ignorance other than everything I can read about mobile homes on BiggerPockets and mobilehomeinvesting.net in about 3 hours time. :)I own and manage a modest portfolio of MFR properties and have been i...
Steven M.
Too Many "Investors" Owning Homes...Are We Heading For A Whole New Serious R/E Problem?
I would like to address a concern I have about the herd-mentality of everyone and their uncle becoming "investors" and how this is likely to have very serious long term implications on housing that few have thought mu...
Skye Anderson
Have you ever heard of the utility meter being stolen?
Myself and a partner have a SFH under contract in St. Louis, MO (this is a long-distance transaction) that we intend to purchase as a buy and hold. We just learned yesterday that they were unable to do the municipal i...
Lee Fahy
Investa-Brothel the Odyssey
My wife and I had been interested in purchasing a rental property for about a year with the intent of making this a business. She's a teacher, I'm an engineer and we have little faith in the future of Social Security ...
Brian Orr
Are the seminars valuable or scams?
I've heard multiple times on podcasts, people that speak of large value from continued education, conferences, seminars, etc... But i've also seen a few BP blog posts warning that they are scams... The one around here...
David C.
SDIRA experience - is it really worth the hype?
I have been looking opening a SDIRA. I have read/heard many tout the overall benefits and flexibility of using an SDIRA, but when I looked into it a little more, the SDIRA seemed to lose its luster with several restr...
Jordan Hanksion
Can I estimate with a "Zestimate"?
Hey BPZillow seems like it could be a very useful tool for searching for real estate and gleaning a blind estimate for locations value and rental income.My question is, just how accurate are these "Zestimates"? Especi...
Rob C.
Is it really that important to hire contractors that are insured?
From what I've read in the forums it seems that conventional wisdom here is it's best to hire only contractors & handymen that are insured. I adopted this perspective when I started as a landlord as I tend to trus...
Michael Plaks
Straight talk: my CPA keeps delaying and is not responding
We accountants are regularly approached by investors who are unhappy with their current CPAs being too slow to finish the work, too difficult to get hold of, too unreliable, too something else... So I decided to open ...
Kyle Michael
cost segregation
I have read it is a good idea to have a cost segregation done I have found a few companies but what should I be looking for in a cost seg firm?