I was using the BP Rental Calculator to analyze an owner occupied rental property.  My NOI came out much higher than I expected.  I noticed that when I calculated the numbers manually I could get the same NOI if I lef...

Does anyone here have experience buying a property seller financed, to turn into assisted living ?To convince a seller to seller finance a million dollar home to me, would offering an equity position in the business o...

I own a small business, so I already have a tax guy. Now I'm buying real estate investments to rent out to tenants, and I've read that you really should get a CPA who specializes in Real Estate.How does this work? Do ...

Hi everyone,
First post here.
To what extent does real estate investing make sense if you have a highly successful career, and do not intend - or want - to make real estate a full-time career (as I've noticed many /...

Hello!  Can someone point me to a podcast, book or blog post about how to run your rental properties as a business.  How do we know we qualify and what are the steps?  We own two single family rental properties and an...

Just curious if someone could explain to me how the 20% tax credit works for an old building. My husband and I are looking to invest in a 100 year old 2-story building in the downtown area of our small town. The buil...

If you are investing in buy/hold/rent SFHs, could you rent a house to yourself that is held in the name of your llc? That way, repairs could be written off. Seems shady and unlikely, but I was just wondering how the l...

Hey BiggerPockets,Thanks for all the great info.New member here with a question:I have been researching and reading about rei and I have a plan in my head.  I wanted to to throw my situation out there and see if any r...

What would you do in this scenario and why?If you had 50k in credit card debt for business startup costs (not real estate) with a 3-4-year plan to pay it off, high debt utilization in the meantime and a 620 credit sco...

Hi all, so for the book (full name below) which is designated as the BiggerPockets Rental Kit, 2, is the information it holds still current? I mean given that it's practically 9+ years old.  If the information is out ...