When doing a 1031 exchange, I know you have a certain number of days to identify a property (I think maybe 45 or 60). But what happens if you identify one but during due diligence you discover things that cause you n...

So I just finshed the bigger pockets book on rental property investing and I‘m completely new to this forum. At what age did you start buying up rentals? I’m 43 and have 2 summer rentals that mostly happened by acc...

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My name is Robert Scholl from Houston, TX. I am new to real estate investing with no experience at all. Fortunately I came across this site and am discovering a wealth of information to educate myself. I've alw...

I have a Rental i decided to sell , The comps in the area are 175 to 180k . My loan balance is only 100k , the payment is 745 per month , the buyer wants to take over payments and give me 80k cash, but the Loan will s...

Hello Community,My situation is that I just submitted a mortgage application to start the house buying process, and was notified that after running my credit check ( I wasn't worried as my credit score is 780) that th...

Hi, I had a tenant lined up for our rental property. They had signed the lease, but I had held off signing until they paid the upfront move-in costs.  They eventually paid a portion of it, but not the full amount.  Bu...

So I'm looking in to my first property and I'm going to be using the VA loan, I understand that the VA loan cannot be used for investment properties. I do plan on living on one side and renting the other unit(s). I wa...

Hi all! I'm Lara, new to bigger pockets and new to real estate investing (or real estate in general for that matter). I am a Jesus following homeschool mom of four, married to a teacher. Last year I stumbled upon a po...

I just purchased a duplex that will need around 20k in your work. It is mostly materials and I won't need to use a GC as the electric and plumbing are all basically new. There was moisture issue so I will need to repl...

Hi BP, 
I was hoping if someone could help provide insight into a situation we encountered on the recent purchase of a house.  
We closed July 31st and had an inspection June 23rd.  We moved in on August 26th.
The ...