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...
Larry Turowski
How do you handle the stress?
The latest one for me is my rehab contractor disappearing for 5 days. He finally returned my calls today and said a family member out of state had tree fall on their roof. He went to help fix it.But I find I stress ...
John Matthew Johnston
They're drawing on my Cabinets!!!
My first rental is a B class SFR, Rent 1500/month. I put all new finishes and it LOOKED really nice. I went to do my first rental inspection after 5-6 months( while doing a walk through with an appraisal company to BR...
Sean Kelly-Rand
SVB Impacts to Real Estate
Hey BiggerPockets Crew! It's been a heluva week in the capital markets! And a crazy Friday for those in real estate on the east and west coast tech heavy markets with the collapse of SVB. Initial impacts coming out of...
Amie D.
Wear and tear vs tenant damage
Fiver-year SFR tenants moved out. Refused showings, which made me suspect they had something to hide (addressed in a previous post.)Property managers now want to charge me $1886 to repaint the interior of the 764 sq f...
Dustin Beam
Deposit returns for inherited tenants?
Hello Beautiful people of BP,So I had 3 tenants vacate at the end of last month. One was evicted, so no deposit return there, the other two left after their leases ended. One of the two left the apartment disgusti...
Dan Scarborough
Leads Systems
I'm one of the newbies here, but from what I've read in the forum and blog, my interest in Farmland and Timberland puts me squarely in the minority... As a conservative contrarian in most matters, I'm very comfortable...
Eric Medemar
WHOLESALING 101 Housing Panic Strategies
One of the biggest rookie mistakes that I see newbie wholesalers make is that they want to start looking at real estate BEFORE they have any buyers....
Even when things were decent with our housing market I would nev...
Landon Elscott
I lost $22,000 selling a sports car, but improved my net worth $27,500 - my first deal!
After writing this, I now realize it's pretty long, so I put the main focus and details of the deal in bold and the rest of the fluff in italics.Prior to successfully completing my first real estate deal, one of the t...
Chris Armstrong
Really Trying to understand Depreciation and Recapture upon sale
Hey BP I have been thinking a lot about the issue of depreciation on rental properties and what happens when you sell one after a long time without use of a 1031. I guess I have been thinking about a property that is ...