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Looking for a good SDIRA custodian. Any recommendations? Also curious if anybody has experience using their SDIRA for down payments on rental properties.
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Hello BP,Once I graduate college in about 6 months, I am planning on buying my first SFH or Duplex to house hack and flip at the same time. I have worked as a painting contractor for about 4 years and have basic knowl...
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Hey everyone!
I've been doing STRs for almost two years. I currently have 10 rental arbitrage units, and manage one additional unit. I also have two small children, and a third due in just a few weeks. The oldest wil...
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Hello all,
I'm currently in the process of helping an owner with due diligence for a 10 story office building. I've had several management/maintenance companies walk through. I know this is a complicated building mec...
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How can we avoid making mistakes in Real Estate? This is such a huge question.I've been working in real estate in some capacity since I was 18 years old. I turned 19 working on a framing crew just outside Dallas, TX...
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Hi All,My wife and I now have 6 short term rentals spread out around our small town with another 3 on the way in the next few months. Some of these we own, some we manage for other people. We’re quickly realizing th...
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Hi Fellows,
i have a new tenant, she works for adult care facility. From day one she is trying to trying to make up things to get free rent by giving empty threats. Following is sequence of events:
1. Tenant moved i...
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Hi BP,I have a tenant under eviction. About month ago, we signed an Agreed Dismissal Order through Will Count court states that she will move out on 14th of April and will pay the owed rent by CBRAP through Joliet IL ...
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In most cases I have learned tenants love to have carpets within there units however carpet can be a pain to clean once the tenant leave. In fact, most of the time the maintenance crew would have to replace the carpet...
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I am a new investor in the Portsmouth, VA area. I just moved here from Houston, TX where I was working under a mentor who is a local real estate investor in the Greater Houston area. I learned quite a bit from him as ...