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Hello,I recently got pre approved and now looking at properties to house hack in the Chicago land area (suburbs). As I’m going through the MLS I’m coming up with my questions for the realtor. My questions for you all:...
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Hi All BPers!I need some guidance. My tenant wants to level the backyard before the annual weed and feed. Below are pictures of the yard. It is uneven as you can see. They wanted to rent a tiller at first which I ques...
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I'll try to keep this short...Have done 3 mailings ( a combination of yellow letters, hand written and stuffed in pretty envelopes letters, postcard mailings). Total cost approximately $2,500. Response rate roughly 1-...
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I'm a relatively new private investor and have begun experimenting with the crowdfunding sites, to get into a wider variety of deals at a lower contribution if the terms and restrictions turn out to be viable, or a...
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I recently purchased a 4 unit off market building for $231,000. It was originally listed on the MLS. The numbers in my eyes weren’t terrible so I requested a showing. The realtor wasn’t very helpful and the seller wou...
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Greetings BiggerPockets!Just last month, I started crawling, walking (& dare I say running) towards being a new real estate investor! Last night, I was reading the Morris Invest Case Study 2.0 (@tyler jahnke) and ...
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Hi everyone,
I've searched biggerpockets and couldn't find many recommendations for tutorials on how to setup quickbooks for rental properties.
Google and YouTube tend to show either short clips or irrelevant info...
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Hello All,
I need someone who is strong in math and or spreadsheets to help me with goal setting.
Here is the situation: I want to own (free and clear) 15 properties as soon as possible.
The first one will paid...
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I have recently paid off my loans for my rental properties and I'm starting to accumulate cash (I took it out of the S&P 500 ETF when it was at 3300, now at 2300, predicting this massive stock drop would happen **...
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so i implied for my first loan. It looks like i would be approved for a 170 thousand loan, but i need to have the 6000 in funds for a down payment. I dont have it and they won't accept friend's gift, it has to be a fa...