Gary Ennis
Just Launched Our First Vacation Rental Property
A while back, my wife and I decided to rehab one of our long-term rentals in central Austin and convert it to a short-term vacation rental. After months and months of work, our first vacation rental property is now up...
Scott Sutherland
Texas Proposes New Short Term Vacation Rental Regulations
Texas recently proposed 3 bills which will add many of the same regulations currently reserved for hotels to short term rentals. The rules appear very similar to the ones we operate under in the city of Austin, but th...
Maura Paler
Converting NYC Apartment Building to Condos - can it be done?
We live in a 4 unit building that is currently apartments in NYC. The owner would like to convert to condo, but apparently this is a very tricky and expensive thing to do in NYC with tenants in place. If he is able to...
Michala Vander Ploeg
Cities with best Multifamily (5+ units) Cap Rates & Landlord laws
As a Canadian I'm considering dipping my feet into the US market. Prices of properties in Canada have sky rocketed and rents have not. Where we currently invest, we have strict Tenant/Landlord laws making it very diff...
Brandon Barnes
Brandon from Missouri
Hello Everyone,My name is Brandon. I'm from Columbia, Missouri. I've been a lurker for over a year now and have been doing the same with investment properties. I moved from Kansas City 7 years ago and held on to my ho...
Sam Casper
ADU - 2 units possible?
Hi there guys, its my first time here! Love this forum and knowledge/advice here.Question: Can you construct and rent out 2 separate units (studio with 1 bath) to 2 separate tenants in a single detached ADU?Backgroun...
Krishonda Johnson
Financing contingencies but using cash
Hello bigger pockets buddies. I'm currently reading "The book on negotiating real estate" by J scott, Mark Ferguson and Carol scott. I had a question about the assignment contract (the contract with wholsaler and sell...
Christopher Smith
California Draconian Rent Control Proposition 21
California will once again have on the November ballot a massively draconian and destabilizing rent control measure. The current measure PROP 21 is very similar to a previous measure that was soundly defeated in 2018....
Account Closed
Columbus passes 3 new LL ordinances: sec 8, deposits, reciepts
The "Housing for All" legislative package containing 3 ordinances affecting rental housing providers was passed by city council: Ordinance 0494-2021: Landlords cannot discriminate on housing vouchers, the rent vouche...
Matthew Olszak
Keep Chicago Renting Ordinance is DONE
This probably doesn't affect a whole lot of folks, but if nothing else its a good sign as far as the appellate court's view of excessively overreaching ordinances:https://courts.illinois.gov/Op..."It is evident that t...