Cameron Bock
Rogue Roofer: A Property Manager Story
The story you are about to read has transpired over the past 6-8 months. There are areas in which I made mistakes and contractors made mistakes. This is completely factual, and, looking back on it, was a great learnin...
Alex Jones
What is your “Why” for Real Estate investing ?
My “why” for started in this business is to financially support my daughter college tuition, room and board plus books and other expenses associate with college. Later expands to annual cruise travels and vacation hou...
Joe Butcher
Free and clear: Cash offer or seller fin.?
Heres the situation:
The house is owned free and clear
Seller is motivated but not desperate. It was listed on MLS and didn't sell.
ARV: $150k
Rehab est: 20k
My cash offer: 80k
I...
Matthew John
Can you Properly Analyze a Deal if you can't see Inside?
I'm trying to analyze a triplex that's for sale, but the units are fully rented out and the owner wants a written (and accepted) offer BEFORE scheduling a time to see inside. He then said, to go inside I need an "insu...
Mike Gehard
New to multi family passive investing
Hello all,I'm looking into my first multi family passive investment and trying to dot all of the i's and cross all of the t's before signing on the dotted line to protect everyone involved.How deeply do I need to dig ...
Kimnee L.
Handyman fell down the roof
Hi all. I am wondering what my liability is when someone fell down my roof. Recently it was raining hard. Tenant called me, and I asked another tenant who had repaired roofs for me before. He has no license. He then t...
Brandon Turner
One of my units got destroyed last night in a flood. What do I do now?
yep, about a foot of water in my basement apartment in my triplex. Called the flood insurance company, but my deductible is fairly high ($5k) so I'm looking to still do this cleanup on the cheap. Anybody have any good...
Nick Doria
Looking for the must haves when Creating Landlord policies.
Working on creating my policies for becoming a landlord in Chicago, IL before i buy my first building because of the highly ambitious goal of having 1000 rental units by the time I'm 40 (which will be in 13 years from...
Brigitte Beauchat
DESPERATE NEED of landlord help
Hello! I am brand new to BiggerPockets and semi new to real estate in general. I am a real estate agent and landlord to one property in Northwest PA. The property is a 2/1 single family in an alley. I have had a tenan...
Jay B.
Chicago tenants refusing to answer messages about rent payments??
So I haven't heard from my tenants in 1 month. I'm a long distance real estate investor and my PM company has called, texted, e-mailed, sent out smoke signals but tenants are still refusing to answer. They initially s...