Randy Wieland
LLC 1031 exchange after divorce
My wife and I have an LLC. We divorced last year. We are in a community property state. The rental proceeds have been claimed as regular income on our 1040's. We want to sell one of the two remaining properties in the...
Sam Booth
Quick tips to start self managing rental
Hi all!I currently use a property manager for out of state rentals. Can you recommend some things to so when vetting a local self managed tenant? How do you run a credit check? Call previous landlord of prospective te...
Michael LeBlanc
When should I establish a Legal Entity?
I’m about to house hack my first duplex and I was wondering when is the best time to get an LLC and why?
Karen Margrave
Programmers, Website Developers, etc. can I pick your brain?
QUESTION: If a person wanted to do a website for real estate listings, where a person could click onto a map, select a state/city, and then go to properties in that area, where there would be photos of property and p...
Bienes Raices
Choosing exterior paint color
The house I'm fixing is stucco and concrete block. The external paint color right now is purple and badly needs a new paint job. I'm having hard time choosing the new color for the outside. The other houses in the nei...
Stephen Leblanc
flipping homes
Do most people who flip homes have a full time 9-5 job. By looking at the tv show it seem like most of the successfull flips have owners who spend a lot of time in the house making sure everything is going as it shou...
Logan Bartlett
Should landlord replace carpet after previous tentant dies?
The woman who lived upstairs from me, died in the apartment unexpectedly, and was found 2 days after she died, I was there when they found her and it has been traumatizing, since over the course of her living there we...
Isiah Ferguson
What you think ? i'm just curious
Hey. Do you guys think it would be a good idea to dump 100k into 1 property to be free and clear that way you can maximize your CASH FLOW or leverage the 100k and spread it around through multiply properties ? My only...
Daniel Windingstad
Lemon or no?
I have a confession: my only duplex, which I gave owned now for 2 years and recently moved out of from a house hack, has proven to cost me more to maintain/pay taxes/repair/fix etc to the point where my cash flow is c...
Lawrence Briggs
Real Estate Rookie in Texas — first rental!
I have finally closed on my first rental property. I know own two properties in TX (a primary and investment).
I’m so excited to be a part of the Bigger Pockets community! As a novice Real Estate Investor, I look for...