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Does anyone have any experience investing in Costa Rica? I would like to buy a future retirement home to get away from the cold winters but in the meantime would love to rent it out as a vacation rental.
What are the...
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I was approached by Avantstay and wondered if anyone in this forum has had experience with them from owner point of view.
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So I currently have 65 long term units that I own and I recently purchased my first property that I'll be going the STR route with.Basically, I just bought a large (4300 square feet) cabin on Lake Superior that is ess...
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In your opinion, is 30% a reasonable fee to pay a property manager to do the following:
- Arrange for interior designer/furnishing property (actual expenses I have to pay)
- Promote/advertise rental and respond to a...
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We are looking to move to Georgia and I was curious to know how hard/strict it would be to expand houses.So for instance if we buy a 1700sqft house, how hard would it be to say build it out to say 3k?For now we are co...
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I want to preface this by saying we've been Airbnb hosts for almost 2 years, and this is the first time we have had a huge problem like this. For the past two nights we have had people staying in our basement which i...
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To all of you bloggers, I know some of you have blogs that are highlighted on BP, are your blogs also part of a blog that you do seperately in your business, or do you do them only for BP? Do you write a blog that goe...
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I am trying to find info on property management companies in the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge area. Does anyone here use a management company in that area? Could you tell me who you use and why or why not you would recomme...
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Hello everyone I'm excited to be a part of this platform and I'm looking to buy an investment property. I live in the Salinas CA and medium homes are priced right around $450-500K. The way the real estate market is ...
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Just throwing this out there, but does anyone know any buyers or sellers of D2 or JP54? Also if you do any types of trade we should talk.