I am trying to make a decision on what to replace the carpet with, damaged due to heavy smokers. Since it was carpet before and I am wanting to do away with carpet upstairs. How would I go about to deduct from tenant'...

For those of you that have left W-2 job wondering at what point you felt comfortable doing that, was there a certain magic number you had to have, did you have a plan in place before leaving, did you ever look back, w...

I just purchased a 21 unit apartment complex with a lot of problems. I started cleaning it up - 3 unit evicted in the first month and two more in the way - all of them professional tenants. But this month I got a new ...

I am brand new to real estate investing. After listening to some podcasts, I have decided to house hack and purchase a multi-family as a first-time home buyer. I lucked out and can participate in a 0% down mortgage up...

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I visited a house on foreclosure and left a note. The owner called back and told me someone else is buying the house and only that person will buy the house.
I told the owner that I just need your approval so I ca...

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I would like to get everyone's thoughts if you care to share them about what experience has taught you to include in your lease. I mean beyond the standard lease that I am sure is similar in most cases for a smal...

Hello! Inaugural post of a time lurker and podcast fan. I’m living in the DC area and looking at the possibility of investing in either Jacksonville, FL or Tampa, FL since I’m in the military and there is a good chanc...

One of my best tenants, a tile setter who works with builders finishing interiors of new builds, has run into a lot of bad luck. He had several surgeries resulting from a previous condition and could not work for week...

As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...

I have read a lot of posts on Bigger Pockets that cover this, but I still wanted to start a discussion.  We currently own 4 multifamily and are in the process of picking up three more.  We are looking at a few possibi...