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I was on a webinar about short sales recently when the speaker stated that he does not attend nor try to influence the BPO. He rationale is that he feels that if he tries to negatively impact the price of the apprais...
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I have a SFH property under contract in Cleveland OH and hope to close in the next 3 weeks. Seller had promised to evict the tenant and told me a court has ruled for the tenant to be evicted. My realtor amended the pu...
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Hello Bigger Pockets!This is my first ever post here. As a late-middle-aged woman, brand new to real estate investing, with a sick husband, living (in a rent controlled apartment), in a very expensive real estate mark...
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This topic may be a bit more esoteric than most on this forum, but it does matter to me, and it stands to reason that it might matter to others. I posted a quick comment related to this in another thread and got a th...
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The community has offered amazing advice on my last 2 threads. I had to post again. - Self eviction? Convincing someone to leave? Cash 4 keys offer? Changing locks after they haven’t even been living in the home for a...
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In your opinion, is 30% a reasonable fee to pay a property manager to do the following:
- Arrange for interior designer/furnishing property (actual expenses I have to pay)
- Promote/advertise rental and respond to a...
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The Opportunity Zones program was established by Congress in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act as an innovative approach to spurring long-term private sector investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide....
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Hi guys!You have helped me a lot already to understand things about real estate. I have realized that I have been doing things wrong...(Like negative cash flow on my two rentals, etc) ...So I figured that may be you c...
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My property manager contacted me to let me know a tenant in one of my duplexes has been given a dog. They asked me if I would consider collecting a 200.00 pet deposit and 25.00 a month for pet rent or if I wanted to e...
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part of the appeal for going into real estate investing / landlording is to create passive income. to make enough in order to make it matter, i will need to possibly have 20 properties at some point. It seems to me ...