Alex Dutton
Property Manager vs Investor--- An inherent conflict of interest?
I have a property management fee structure question for the forum.I have several properties in Louisiana and I live in Georgia. I am under a typical property management agreement with an individual who has been fantas...
James H Webb III
How to hire a property manager?
I just closed on my first ever real estate buy and hold deal! I am meeting with a few property management companies in a few days and have a small quandary. I called two companies that service the area and got two ver...
Cory O'Dell
Using seller financing to buy a deal you otherwise wouldn't
What's up BP!So a backstory that will tie into this post. Our overarching REI goal is to acquire 7-10 properties in total and pay them all off in 10-15 years using the rental debt snowball method (with plentiful contr...
Kyle McVay
Leaving Reviews for STR owners
We are LTR folks and we recently stayed at an STR in Austin, TX on a getaway. The pictures of the STR were deceptive and the house was dirty (we found dip, a used pregnancy test on the floor by bathroom trashcan, floo...
Kyle Washburn
Best Direction for Beginner House Hacking (Boston 25yr old)
Hey BiggerPockets, this is my first post here so bear with me. I've been educating myself on real estate for the past few months reading and listening to podcasts, and have decided that my biggest goal for 2021 is to ...
Jon Mccarthy
Moving to Portland, Maine 2019
We are planning our first trip to main February 19th to visit for 3 days. My question is I want to do real estate buy and hold and flipping is Maine capable of this? Now I know the same story that everyone says you ca...
Gene Hacker
Can or will negative interest rates happen in the United States?
I am trying to wrap my head around negative interest rates. Who buys bonds with negative interest rates? Are they 100% monetized? Could this be a trend that is coming to the USA?
Chris Haas
SDIRA strategy
Bare with me, I'm about 1 week into reading about SDIRA.
Seems to me it's not a great way to buy real estate for buy/hold, however it does appear to be a nice way to be a private money lender.
I can see ...
Fred Sonoma
3 mo. after returning security, realized utility bill was unpaid
Idiot mistake... 3 months after returning security deposit to tenants I get a call from PSEG that there is an unpaid bill greater than $1.5k at the house... What can I do? Can I send this to collections? Will I have t...
Keith T.
Locating reliable private lenders... and a few questions
Greetings BP-I'm having trouble locating lenders that specialize in fix and flips. I keep reading that hard money is the industry standard for rehabbing homes, but locating them has been fairly challenging. Most websi...