The Aug 17th Realtor commission changes have now gone into affect. How does this impact you? First off, what changed? Primarily 2 things:1. No more promise of buyers agent commissions posted on the MLS. This includes ...

I hired a contractor last year to do a kitchen remodel including him sub contracting another provider for counters.  He paid the down payment for the counters but did not pay the final bill of $1300.  I have since sol...

Hi All,I own a 2-family, which is currently my only investment property and the first house I bought. I now have both sides as rentals and get great cash flow. So far everything has gone well with the exception of a f...

Hey there, BP Community!My name is David and I'm currently living in Chicago, Illinois. I've been looking into ways to gain some passive income for a while, but nothing got me quite as excited as BiggerPockets.com and...

Me neither…….

I have had too many CPA's in the past 4 years and have not been incredibly impressed with any of them. They're all very established and comfortable, which is by no means a bad thing. However, ...

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Crunched numbers on a few rental today. 2 SFH and 2 fourplexes. 1 sfh is being remodeled as a BRRRR. Arv is 140k. All in should be about 95k. Should rent for about $1300. Should cash flow about $300 because it will ha...

Its painful to see my annual home insurance premiums, for my Houston rental houses, keeps increasing without a single claim!! Are you seeing the same? Does anyone have any recommendations or referrals??

Hello everyone,
As the title says, we are 3 weeks away from closing and we are in a big dilemma. For background information, I'm a W-2 contract employee who makes 80k+ a year and I have been working at this job sinc...

Hello everyone!I am new to the BP scene, and would like some advice on my first BRRRR calculation. I’m on the brink of making my first purchase towards (hopefully) a successful real estate investing career. My goal is...