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Hello BiggerPockets Community,
I'm new to the world of real estate investing and am looking to start my first LLC to better manage my properties and protect my personal assets. I understand that forming an LLC can of...
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I know that the numerator of cap rate is the net operating income. However, I seem to see confusion on what is included on the denominator. Is it the entire purchase price of the property including any amount financ...
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My husband and I talked to our banker about buying a duplex, we would be living there and renting the top floor. We were looking at properties that were around $60,000 the broker said we should get an FHA loan and loo...
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Hi all! I'm John from Campbell Hall, NY. I'm a contractor and have spent most of my life in the business. I have bought and sold a few property's of my own and rented one before we sold Although I have rehabbed nume...
Hi All,I working with a property manager for renting out my first-ever property. One of the applicants who is interested will be moving to find a job and has a guarantor (her family) on the lease. I initially said no ...
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I have two sf rentals, and my dti is around 40%. Is there something I can do to still own these properties, but not let it hurt my dti like I is?
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Hello,
I see many homes where I'm going to be buying (SFH's and Multi-FH's) where they are being sold as-is and without a survey.
The lack of survey concerns me. I thought that a survey needs to be done on every s...
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I think it would be more difficult for me to come up with good tenant stories, the horror stories come easy.
1. One of my tenants who I was evicting lived in a unit where I payed all of the utilities, he moved out in...
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Recommendations for STR management software please.
I looked at rentredi not sure if that would work for STR management. I will be doing 1031 exchange in the spring of 2023 and buying my first STR.
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Sadly, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley author of "The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind, and several other books related to Marketing ot he Affluent and the study of the Millionaire houselholds, passed away Saturday F...