Gilda Sanne
Rental Property Tax Deductions first year in service.
I purchased a mobile home out of state a couple years ago and decided in 2023 to remodel and get ready to rent. I rented it on December 1, 2023. Can I deduct any expenses incurred throughout the entire year 2023 for t...
Allende Hernandez
Need suggestions on how to handle utility costs for house with "efficiencies"
Good afternoon fellow investors,I just closed on my first rental property, which consists of a main house with 3 attached smaller units (efficiencies) - this is very normal in this area- , everything is on one meter.T...
Craig Parnacott
Help Analyze First Deal-4plex
Please help with analyzing my first possible deal. Please take a look and let me know what you think, my goal would be to purchase somewhat lower than the ask but I wanted worst case scenario so I used the ask pri...
Rocky Pe Benito
Ratio Utility Billing System (RUBS)
Does anyone use RUBS to charge tenants for utilities in Multnomah County? If so, can you share your experience?
Thanks!
Ravi P.
Blackstone/ Invitations Homes IPO
I just read an article stating: Blackstone's Invitation Homes will be going public. Largest home owner of homes in the US.I am not sure how to read this. Does this indirectly mean the RE market has peaked on a Macro l...
Cory J Thornton
Investing in farm land for lease
Hey BP Family! I recently started digging into farm leases. I learned that you can take depreciation on land leased as a farm and that in some cases, this is typically a very low touch point method of investing. There...
Darren Campbell
50% rule or 2% rule?
I recently read Brandon Turners book on Rental Property Investing. I talked about the 2% (rents should be 2% of sale price) rule and 50% (rents should be multiplied by 0.5 - principal and interest if mortgage) rule. W...
Colin O'Neill
Renting property as rooms to university students
Hey BP Nation,
I have a duplex that is adjacent to University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and when I move out of my unit, I would like to consider renting to multiple students instead of a traditional tenant. Is this wi...
Brennen McConnell
Profit margins on new construction homes
I have foreign investor capital lined up to buy vacant lots and build new roughly 1,750 sqft homes in the Greater Seattle Area, including Tacoma and Everett, and am looking for feedback as to whether or not my assumpt...
Pablo Avila
Finding Vacant Properties via your city's Open Data!
Here's another post adding value to this community: Leveraging your city's open data to find vacancies.
I'll start by pointing you how to get these leads yourself. To give you an idea, sometimes pulling these manual...