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Hello,We bought this house and closed on April 28th. We have been searching for a qualified tenant but have had no luck.I was wondering how long other investors have had vacancies in months. Is it normal to have a vac...
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My wife and I are ready to purchase our first multi-family, first investment property. I was driving by a triplex in a low income neighborhood for 95k and grosses $1400/month. After I scoped out the property, I came...
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Hi,I have been presented with a very unique and rare opportunity to purchase the home right next door to me in a very hot neighborhood in Austin, TX. Because of this opportunity to potentially sell both lots to a deve...
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How is the house hacking experience going? Are you enjoying it? I'm currently house hacking and its been pretty smooth!
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There are a lot of discussions on the site about starting out, but I find that those discussions where people share the challenges they went through on difficult deals are the best to learn from.
So . . .
What Was Y...
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All of our rental agreements are month to month. To incentivize people to stay longer, we charge a move in fee that can be added forwards the refundable deposit if they stay over a year. Example: rent is $1000, move i...
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Its amazing that the morning of January 1st I knew nothing about real estate investing. Now after purchasing six deals with a seventh under contract I realize I have just scratched the surface and have much more to le...
I’m a newbie landlord in Cal and have already served the 3 day notice twice with my very first tenant, I’m still in the early stage of this painful eviction process.Tenant claimed heater broke down the second day afte...
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Bear with me, I am new to this style of post. I like offering up suggestions, opinions, information, etc on other threads, however I have never started a post simply to share information. As with any/all information y...
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Hello all,I am renting out a "2" bedroom apt in a 3-fam I recently closed on in a new area I'm investing in. I've enlisted a Realtor to help fill the fisrt time around so I can see what kind of feedback it gets and we...