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I've seen plenty of shortcuts to analyze apartment deals, but not quite for value-add strategies. It takes me at least an hour to properly analyze a value-add apartment deal, and I'm curious if others have come up wit...
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IntroductionOn 1/31/2020, I purchased my first two rental properties. One of which I just sold last week, on 5/27/2021. The following write-up is a detailed analysis on the numbers, from purchase and closing costs...
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Quick question for BP. What's your approach to rehabbing a multi-family property while the units are occupied? Let's say you just bought a fourplex in need of cosmetic repairs (no structural improvements needed) that'...
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Does anyone out there have any experience using Xero accounting software for house flipping? As I understand it, everyone who uses Quickbooks for flipping uses the 'class tracking' feature to set up each individual pr...
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I want to be able to have the ability for a tenant to put in a repair request online. I don’t want to spend much money per month and they don’t seem to want to pay their rent online or anything like that. Just that ...
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I've seen posts on here from a few years ago about rental portfolio dashboards, but all seem to be inconclusive or suggest a software subscription to have such a reporting tool. I am planning to build a portfolio das...
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I hate to post about the cliché problem of a toilet not flushing at 2 AM, but I'm currently dealing with this problem with a particular property under management. They have received 3 emergency calls (and charged me a...
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Hello
I have a house for rent and did find already a good section 8 tenant...She wants the property, also showed me her voucher today
The problem is that the house is under my mother name and she is n...
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Im currently looking at a property that has tenants living in them. I thought the posting said 3 unit but my realtor gave me the paper work on it. I looked at the paper work and its a 4 UNIT property. Im waiting to ...
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I'm looking to buy and hold something as a house hack. I've come across some properties I consider to be unusual and unique. For example, one property has 2 living units, a 3br and a 2br, plus a home office with a sep...