My fiance and I are looking to buy our first home.  Neither of us have good credit. She is a veteran so we're thinking a VA loan would be the best route to take to get financing. We live in the Richmond Virginia area ...

Hey everyone.Our Airbnb came with a Vivint Security System(door sensor, smart deadbolts, window sensors on all windows, video doorbell, camera in back and a few other things).  It's $50 a month for the monitoring.How ...

Hello,First time posting here. I have enough money to prepay my mortgage payment for the next 6-12 months and am wondering if it would cut any time off my 30 year mortgage. To be clear, I don't mean throwing a large s...

I just bought a SFR rental in Southwest PA with some visible mold in the basement. A "mold remediation company" quoted me $4,500 to handle the situation. However, my contractor said he has a guy that can take care o...

Hey all! Birmingham, AL is my target city for a boat load of reasons, but I live up in Philadelphia, PA. That's not going to stop me, I'm currently building a team over in Birmingham to get my portfolio started, but I...

I'm in my early 30s, married, with one child and another on the way. We're planning to move three hours away soon.
Currently, we own one Class A rental property that generates about $500/month in cash flow. Additiona...

Hey folks, long-time/first-time!I'm fairly new to "the game" with one property in Murphy, NC and not quite 4 months of operations under my belt.Tax season is coming up and - as a newbie who is not yet cash-flowing (we...

Hi again, BP! We are launching our first STR in Florida. I have listened to BP for 3 years so I am armed with the minutia of optimization of a rental business itself! However, to my naive surprise, the absolute very b...

I'm posting to vent and maybe get some advice. I have a tenant that I have realized is Bipolar and has some serious mood swings and gets very negative verbally attacking me.She has one of my more challenging units tha...

I have a potential tenant (still reviewing) that is willing to pay a years rent in advance. Is this a good idea or should I keep waiting. I’m new to landlording but, have read many of the bigger pockets forums and the...