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Hi BPers,
When it comes to tax time, were are you accounting for your rental property search expenses? the house hunting expenses? Are you putting them on schedule C since they arent necessarily assigned to any parti...
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Hello all,
My name is Brendan and I am looking to start my multifamily journey. I come from a very low income family, which has started a fire in me since I was 15 years old. When I was 16 I started my first business...
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For investors who have partnered or are still partnering with other investors for real estate deals:What type of partnership agreements did you enter?
What type of real estate strategies did you pursue - buy and hold...
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We are trying something new this year and have been inspired by Spotify Wrapped!Congrats to our Top Forum Posters in 2023!
The 8 passionate users have posted the most on the forums and have each published more that...
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What side hustles have you done to earn extra money to purchase a first real estate property?
I own a two family in n Bergen, nj and I have a problem tenant. Tenant stopped paying full rent starting June, July,aug,sept,nov and then nothing for December. I know I was late with this by I started legal procedures...
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Hey, quick question everyone. What order do you all contact potential sellers after skip tracing. Do you text blast first, then call the ones that are interested. Then call the ones who didn’t text back after you call...
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I'm still fairly new but in deciding the cost benefit of multi family investing I'm curious why so many decide to go with SFR rentals. Im not saying they aren't worth it because that subjective but I'm curious why one...
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Looks like financial regulators have closed Silicon Valley Bank. This bank has high exposure to tech & venture capital, however I was surprised to see this headline so soon. I have seen several articles stating th...
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Here’s rant #2 for the day. I have a preliminary call in a few minutes with a person that wants to get into private lending and wants to engage our loan consulting side to assist. When we asked “what they were current...