Natalie Brown
Hard money lender wants a $2k DD fee & $5k appraisal
My client is looking for hard money. I am not very familiar with their processes. They want him to pay a $2k due diligence fee up front and pay for an appraisal of $5 up front with no guarantee of funding. Keep in min...
Blake Morgan
Opportunity to inherit two apartment buildings
Hi everyone I'll try to be brief and give the pertinent details. I'm being given the option to take over two apartment buildings from my dad. He is thinking about selling the buildings for around 1.6 mil but will give...
Jenelle H.
No one wants ot hear about RE anymore
Are we real estate investors all alone? Lately I've been talking about real estate a lot to my friends and family, and today I was told by someone that they didn't want to hear about it anymore. Have you ever experi...
Craig S.
A Few Landlording Questions
Hello,As a relatively new landlord, I have a few questions I am facing, and wondering what is the best way to handle each of these situations. Can some of the more experienced guys/gals give me some advice?1) Roommate...
Udawath Praveen
Build to Rent - Short Term Rental ( Loghomes vs Modular vs Stick)
Hello everyone,I am exploring to build a vacation / short term rental home in west north carolina ( Beech/Sugar Mountain area). I would like to know thoughts from folks here on building the home. Would also like to kn...
Ryan Hamaker
What Fears you had buying your first Rental Property
Hi BP community,This forum post needed to be retitled from my first version submitted an hour ago to make more sense.
When I started my RE investing journey back in the mid 2000's, I joined a local RE Investing group...
Wade Penner
When do you stop accepting applications for a rental property?
This is my first time through the screening process, and I had everything dialed in to screen multiple applicants and choose the best based on a set of criteria. However, I've now shown it a few times and there was o...
Lara N.
Long-term consequences of allowing a smoking tenant
Hello everyone,I own a one bedroom condo in a desirable neighborhood & I will be leasing my unit very soon. I already had an interested prospective tenant view the property & he's quite interested.He has a sol...
Ben Strumeier
First time investor in Jacksonville
Hi all - I just got into the Bigger Pockets Podcast and it is amazing. A friend of mine and me are interested in purchasing what will hopefully be our first of many properties in the Jacksonville area (we are from NYC...
Julie Kern
First Deal: SFR or Student Rental?? - Brainstorming
We have a contract on our first deal as of today (see http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/1548... for details).Our original plan was to rent this out as a SFR. But over the last 24 hours, I started wonderin...