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I have a few questions here:
1) if I have 2 year's tax returns with rental income reported but have not had the rental property for 2 years (say 1.2 years), will lenders still consider the income? I do/will have a si...
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I was taking a look at a house today with a federal pacific panel in it. These things are notorious for having their breakers fail. Has anyone here ever dealt with these? What do you typically do, put in a new panel?
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Because I’m new to real estate I wanted some input on my best strategy based on my currently situation and goals.
Currently, I’m in Afghanistan and will be here until the end of 2014. Right now my real estate team c...
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Thanks Theo Hicks for this amazing blog post.
In our recent interview with @Slocomb Reed and Phil, we looked at the importance of real estate investing and tax planning. If you use tax mitigation techniques like cost...
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Parents have their personal mobile home parked in their rental unit. I’m trying to convince them to Short term rent it to bring in some more income since it is just sitting there. Question, how is the SA market for...
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I have a tenant who has been in one of my houses for almost a year. His first two months he paid on time. Since then he's paid late every single month. But he has paid and is otherwise a responsible guy. I hired him t...
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I was the receiver of a great reach out today by someone who had read something I posted about the MFIA class in Bigger Pockets and I realized I have not been on here for two years!!Having said that the reason why I h...
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As I've been watching podcasts n reading topic posts, one thing that has crossed my mind: how come people aren't wanting to quit their jobs to become RE agents or brokers while becoming a full time investor? On paper,...
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A month ago we had a pinhole water leak in the rental unit . We got it fixed same day. Water damage restoration company removed some drywall and flooring . They did complete dry out and sanitized the area .They cover...
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Hello Forum,This is my first post after lurking around a bit, and was hoping I could get some direction. I currently live in a house hacked duplex, and rented out the lower unit roughly a month ago. This is the 3rd te...