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What is your biggest roadblock right now in real estate investing?What are you doing to overcome it right now?Just trying to get a convo started, have a good weekend everyone.
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Hi All,In the process of renting our property, we received many applications. One of them was an aggressive lady on section 8. She assured us she has excellent credit score. My dad who was helping with the process, se...
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Would it be too much to say that Brandon Turner and Bigger Pockets helped us thrive in the era of COVID? I don’t think so. We’ve gone from two full-time jobs to one and we’ve become accredited investors almost by acci...
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Opportunity zones in Phoenix are a hot topic. This article explains what they are and explores both the good and bad of Opportunity Zones here. Thought it might be useful for current and future investors in Phoenix, S...
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Hello BP, I know that accountants are extremely valuable people to have in your circle, but I find outrageous titles grab people’s attention.
When do you like to meet with your accountant and how frequently to you s...
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Hey guys,
we are BAH (buy-and-hold) property owners that just separated our business account from personal.
To efficiently operate rentals, what business accounts would you recommend to have? Would you recommend:
-a s...
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Hi Everyone,I have been reading the book on Rental Property investing by Brandon Turner and it is helping me a lot. Brandon always mentions that appreciation is like gambling and a speculation. We should not buy any p...
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I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...
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To borrow or not to borrow, debt free is the way to be etc etc etc. The way I see this is a risk vs reward. How do you decide though where the risk is to great or the reward to little? How do you decide to purchase a ...
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