Benjamin Gorby
What to do in a slow rent market?
In my area there are a ton of house for sale or for rent. What should i be doing about getting a tenant into my rental? Lower the rent, waive the deposit/ last month. Some income is better than no income... No??? Need...
Joseph Shilen
Advice for buying first multi-family property in the current market
Hello, all! I heard about BP through Brandon Turner's The Book on Rental Property Investing and hope I might be able to get a little bit of advice or even just some words of encouragement.I've taken a real interest in...
Miranda Vaughn
First time STR purchase
Investment Info:
Townhouse other investment.
2BR/1.5 BA furnished townhome in Panama City Beach, FL. After dropping around 40K into the property, between down payment and updates, we are starting to have so...
Keelia Purscell
Older duplex needs central air
Hey there fam, I'm finding quite a few older 1930-1960's duplexes and fourplexes in my general area here in DFW that don't have central heat/air. They are currently rented with window units/space heaters. This would...
Jessica K.
Convert motel to studios??
My husband and I own a duplex and we'd love to buy some more real estate but don't know where to start. I found Bigger Pockets by searching the podcasts on iTunes. I'm hooked! I love all the information and especia...
Josh L.
Installing dimmer switch
I was skimming a real estate book about increasing value of your income property in the bookstore, and it mentioned how much of a difference changing the light on/off switch to a dimmer switch would be.Does it really ...
Ramel Dupree
Ready to make my first move
Good Day Everyone,I'm currently stationed in the Charlottesville/Ruckersville area of Virginia. As of April, I would have been on station for a year and given the cost of living for the area, especially with the renta...
Raymond Steffen
To Lease or Not to Lease?
First post here...My question/concern is this... good tenants will be good tenants regardless if there is a binding lease or not. Bad tenants will be bad tenants regardless if there is a binding lease or not.I'm curre...
Jon Kamantigue
From VA > MA > NY, Hello Bigger Pockets community
Hello, my name is Jon Kamantigue and I wanted to say hello and introduce myself the the BiggerPockets community.I purchased my first property in 2003 for myself in the Northern Virginia suburbs when the market was boo...
Kristi Wolfe
HAP/Section 8 process- Cook County IL
We own a rental townhome in Streamwood IL - a suburb of Chicago. Streamwood is decent. - not posh, but not seedy. Somehow, the housing standards chart says that in Streamwood, the rent for a 2-BR should be capped at...