Tony Tran
Maintenance Every Other Day
BP Family,Have you ever had a tenant that always calling you to do a maintenance? Or consistently finds a problem for minor repairs? What have you done differently to reduce the numbers of complaints that something th...
Preet Oberoi
Tax benefit of STR/Tiny home - Will it work ?
Hello everyone, I am looking into buying my first Airbnb and the sole driver for this choice is to be able to take depreciation of my two LTR properties against my W2. Can anyone poke a hole in this approach ? Also, w...
Sandy Bars
Gas Water Heater Pilot Light - thermocoupler?
Pilot goes out AFTER it heats the water. That is, I can start the pilot light, and it will stay on (even all night - as i left it in pilot mode), but once the gas turns on and heats the water for awhile (not sure ho...
Tom C
Subcontractors without Insurance
I am hiring my brother inlaw and his crew to do a tear off and new roof on one of my rentals. In most cases, I wouldn't be too worried about it, but he is talking about using 7 guys. All of these guys do this work on ...
Teresa Keith
My First Rehab Project
Hello, BP Investors!
I have a great mentor who I met from right here on BP, and he hired me to project manage a duplex renovation for future rentals. It was purchased by a foreign investor in Hong Kong who as...
Ken Neusaenger
Investing in raw land that is under ag exemption in texas
I'm interested in purchasing a piece of raw land that is about 20 acres using my IRA. It is currently raw land with no improvements. I have more than enough in the account to pay for the land - about 4X the cost of ...
Account Closed
Newbie Mistake? Repairmen and Damage
I own 2 single family homes and have had great tenants for two years. Just replaced my first tenants with a three-generation family. Walked the house before they moved in and after, everything great. They were having ...
Jon K.
New to section 8, looking for guidance
I have a vacancy coming next month in Baltimore County, Md. and am considering giving section 8 a try. I get the general concept but I couldn't find great information online about how it worked in my area. I'm specifi...
Sika Akanji
DFW Bank Recommendations to House Solo 401k?
Hello. Does anyone have an recommendations for banks/financial institutions that we can house our Solo 401k Trust with? We're not looking for a bank to be the administrator, but simply hold our trust account. To my un...
BRadley Cottam
SFH Red Flags
Next Week I am actually starting to look for my first SFH investment property. Im looking between 100-200k homes build in the 70's. Most of the ones I am checking into have been updated in the past 10 years. I am h...