James C.
Florida tax sale questions
All,I'm looking at some contiguous Florida tax sale parcels with multiple years of tax sale certificates which are all owned by the county. If I wanted to put them together do I need to buy all the back certificates f...
Rizwan Khan
Asbestos and Lead based Paint
Greetings. I have question for the forum if someone can provide guidance. I recently purchased (not even closed yet) a duplex. At the time of the inspection, one side was vacant and we discovered there may be asbestos...
Rebekah Bloom
Cleveland Single Family Rental Property
Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Cleveland.
Hi everyone, I am new here to BP and have just made my first investment purchase in the North Collinwood area, close to Waterl...
Scott Lewis
Proposed Housing Code Changes in Wilmington, DE
Fellow BP Members,Recently, there were four community meetings to discuss proposed housing code legislation in WIlmington, DE. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend, but am wondering if any of you were and what sort...
Michael L.
Opening the Kimono: My Out-of-State REI Experience
Back in November (2014) I closed on my first REI property. A 'turnkey' duplex in Chicago. I went with a well-known turnkey provider and posted initial updates in this thread:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/to...
Michelle Borg
Is Philadelphia a good long term investment market
Hi all, we’re looking to buy our first investment property. We live in Southern California but have a lot of family in the north east. We would like to start building our portfolio with a long term rental, preferably ...
Joshua Nicholas
Affordable Housing Resources?
Hi everyone,I'm hoping someone can help me with this as I've tried to figure out this game by myself to no avail.I have a project I'm looking at that's 80 units, vacant and needs a full gut rehab. I can get really fan...
Pete Harper
First off-market Deal
I just had my first off-market deal accepted. I found it by researching the county tax records for multi-family properties in the market I was interested. I then sent out "yellow letters" to all the properties that ...
David Sisson
When is a free building too expensive?
I have an opportunity to get a large (8,000 SF) commercial building for free. This building is historic, and would come with restrictions. It's also in very rough condition, with an estimate of $1M plus in order to ge...
Lawson Ott
operating an in-house section 8 apartment complex
interested in running an apartment complex which runs it's own section 8 (usually at least half of the units, many times all units, of a complex are income based - the renters apply for the apartment and assistance at...