Cornelius Charles
Phone Answering Service
My wife and I work full time jobs and are not always available to answer calls we receive from our marketing. We have a decent voicemail set up, but I wonder how many leads choose not to leave a voicemail and move on...
Lesa Palmer
Question about HELOC interest tax deduction
Last August we took out a HELOC on what was our main residence, to use as a down payment on a new house, which is now our main residence. We turned the first house into a rental. Under the new tax laws can the interes...
Joseph Scorese
Mortgage Rates Approaching 5-Month Lows
Mortgage Rates Approaching 5-Month LowsMortgage rates had another great day, with most lenders maintaining or improving upon yesterday's 4-month lows. Given that we'd have to go back to May 8th, 2015 to see better ra...
Lauren Hogan
How Can We Make the BiggerPockets Real Estate Marketplace Better?
BiggerPockets! I would like to hear from you about what we can do to make the Real Estate Marketplace better for investors.
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Blake Morgan
Amazon investing $80 million in Greenwood to create 1250+ jobs
Hi all,I own a property in Greenwood and have been looking to buy another. With Amazon moving in and setting up a new facility in 2019 do you think I should act now? Or do you think this won’t have a noticeable impact...
Robert Zazac
Beneficial Day Jobs for R.E. Investor?
Hello BP Community, I'm a newer Pittsburgh investor who currently owns a duplex and is looking to grow my buy-and-hold portfolio. I am very well studied, but now need to focus on improving my hands-on experience, ski...
David Lao
Depreciation to offset W2 income
This is a hypothetical situation. Billy has a day job earning $100,000 per year in California. He wants to build a real estate empire in his local market as the king of residential real estate (1-4 units). What value ...
James Kandasamy
Multifamily BRRR strategy that created 4.5m of value in 12 months
We are happy to report about the recent cash-out refinance of our 174 Units Apartment Complex in San Antonio, TX. This property won the San Antonio Apartment Association Property of the Year award for 2017. We did a ...
Timothy Aughinbaugh
Flog me or praise me: I'm interested in your feedback
I recently purchased 2 fourplex properties and undertook a massive renovation. This was biggest purchase in the history of my company. All the properties have new tile, bathrooms, kitchens, SS appliances, granite, re...
Lawrence Cox III
Should I keep, sell, refinance, or make extra payments?
Hello everyone,I will try and be brief.I am in the East Houston, TX area. I am 4 years into a fixed 30 year mortgage. I have a 5.875% APR with $107,500.00 left to pay. Original loan amount was 115k. Appraisal shoul...