Craig M
Experiences rehabbing in tract housing neighborhoods
The suburbs around Austin are flooded with cookie cutter tract houses. What are your experiences, good or bad, rehabbing homes in areas like this? It seems at any given time you can find 2-3 houses with the exact sa...
Peter Nelson
Need help selecting camera and/or camcorder for real estate
We are a Seattle-based property management company. We need to purchase a good camera and camcorder for taking real estate pictures and videos for both marketing as well as inspection purposes..
What are the...
Nick Louie
NYS SONYMA Down Payment Assistant Program Requirements
BiggerPocketers, My name is Nick. I'm moving back to Manhattan from abroad in about a week. I'm looking to house-hack via FHA (3.5%) immediately. Ideally, I'm looking to land a multi-family in Brooklyn with 4 units + ...
Julie Hassett
What is the $$ Value of a Lead Free Rental?
Hi BP community! My partner and I just had a deal on a Baltimore (21213) row home fall through on appraised value.Here's the quick and dirty:We agreed on a $74K sales price for a recently rehabbed lead-free unit. (I'm...
Mike M.
Water Submeter -- Require Tenant to Maintain Internet Service?
Recently purchased a duplex that has separate gas/electric meters for each unit, but only a single water meter serving both units. Having faced this situation before, my initial plan was to install a second meter in ...
Kiley Harris
House Hack taxes/reporting
Hello! I bought a house and have three roommates living with me. I am looking to buy another house in late 2025 to move to and house hack again but I feel like I have info overload!1. Who would I talk to in order to f...
Kevin Lefeuvre
Application for rent: Before or after showing the unit?
What's the best practice? Do you require the potential tenant to file the application first and show the house after or do you show first?I want to require them to apply first and show only to those I am interested in...
Joe Doman
Accounting software recommendations
Hello, I am looking to upgrade from excel spreadsheets and go with an accounting software. I have 28 rental units, I flip 6 or so houses a year, and do a handful of retail listings as an agent. What software do you re...
Joseph Weisenbloom
First aparment showing tomorow! Need some help preparing
I know most of you seasoned landlords probably despise showings but I have my first one tomorrow and I'm pretty excited. After posting an ad on Postlets I have scheduled 10 people to come see the house. I am doing...
John Matarazzo
Newbie landlord here, looking for some tenant screening advice
Hi all,I've owned my property for 8 months now but now having my first tenant turnover. A few questions,- Brandon Turner's property management book mentions on the rental application asking for the prospective tenant'...