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Hello! My wife and I are renovating our house in order to eventually rent it out. The water heater's bed pan is rusting through and the water heater needs replacing. We live in Colorado Springs which has fairly hard w...
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Hello BP Community!My name is Jonathan Kimball and I'm brand new to real estate investing. A little background on me, I'm an O-3 in the Air Force and over the past 4'ish years became an ardent follower of the "FIRE" m...
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This is what my tenant just sent me:
BTW - I kept meaning to ask you…based on the water issues we’ve had since last year’s move in and more recently with the ceiling leak, was the inside of the house tested for mol...
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Currently looking into various areas to invest, and all of them, (Vermont, Minneapolis and Milwaukee) all have intense winters. From my experience in buying personal residences, the advice I've heard is NEVER buy in t...
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Does anyone have any experience in clearwater florida? Looking real hard at a 350 space park with a third of them being park owned homes. I have owned parks in NC years a go but never in Florida. Not sure what the de...
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I have an off market opportunity in Tampa.
It's in Lowry Park North. I'm not sure it's a great area for investment, but that's why I'm here. I've heard once you stay west of the 275 or the opposite side of sulphur sp...
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Hello!I'm just about to pull the trigger and make an offer on a property here in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St.Paul) region of Minnesota, I'm just about done with my analysis of what will be needed to get the house ...
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Just had a $5,000 amount of work I had to get done on a property. Water damage, rat damage. Just 6 months in on a tenant using the property.
What do you do to avoid those? Is your property manager doing monthly inspe...
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Hey everyone so I am going to just be open and honest with this, I am a first time real estate investor but i am ambitious and am looking an amazing deal in my opinion. I have a 3000 sq ft home in down town on a 9000 ...
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I am currently renting at 40% below market rate rent and will be putting 5% down. With my low rent when I calculate the numbers for a duplex I would pay the same I pay in rent while I live there. I don't really want t...