My wife and I are purchasing our first investment property in Tavares, FL with a bank statement loan through Sprout Mortgage. (fingers crossed closing date is March 4th).  The home appraised for exactly what we offere...

Hello, I am looking into buying a summer home in northern Arizona. Unfortunately, prices for most homes in the areas I have been looking at are pretty high and the properties out in the woods like I want are rare. ...

We are screening tenants and pets are allowed, with breed restrictions. I know how people fudge information, especially on the pet application part. Is it ok for us to require a photograph of the pet along with the pe...

Fairly new to this forum, so hello!I am a recent college grad, working in a decent marketing job paying off my student debt. While I have almost no capital, I am pretty invested in becoming financially free sooner rat...

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We thought we would share our experience with our first vacation (lake house) flip we sold a month ago. We decided to try vacation properties due to the over saturation of the single family flip market. 
We ...

Hi Biggerpocket Team!I am putting the finishing touches on a studio apartment that was built over my garage.It has unfinished wooden steps leading up to it now but I would like to find out what everyone is covering th...

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One of my tenant families is moving out at the end of this month. In the pre-move out inspection, I found the bottom part of the master bathroom door is badly rotten (water damage) and the paint there got bubb...

Last week we signed the purchase agreement for what will be our 25th unit over 4 1/2 years.  It's nothing glamorous, but with a bit of work should exceed what we could achieve in most other investments, and hopefully ...

While it bothers me that a U.S. Senator was busy looking at porn on the Senate floor on a government-issues computer, I'm more appalled at the fact that he was doing so because he "was bored as they were debating the ...

Hi everyone, I am new here and new to the real estate investing game as well. Currently I am analyzing a duplex in Georgia, it appears like a great deal. The listing price is 65k but from what was listed, the gross re...