Sydney Munson
Out-of-State Property Management: Placing Tenant Without PM?
Hi all - I am about to close on my first out-of-state single family home and am going to self-manage the property. I am planning to use Cozy to collect payments, and am comfortable with the idea of advertising and scr...
Chrisovalantis Boutsikos
New Investor, but i live in a hot market. Where do I begin?
Hi all, I'm a new investor trying to buy my first rental property. I live in Long Island, New York. I make 6 figures, my DTI < 10%, I have excellent credit, I've been pre-approved for a 650k loan, and have a nice c...
Sean Wang
How to find Vacant property owner’s contact info
I found this vacant property and found out owner’s name. Did People search and found some phone numbers but tried them all, non of them are available or correct. There current address is the vacant property address.D...
Matt Polinchak
Bought my 1st Rental Property!
Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Raleigh.
Purchase price: $194,000
Cash invested: $27,500
I bought this property as a buy and hold investment. What I like about i...
Robert Steele
De Minimis Safe Harbor Election (expense rather than depreciate?)
Does anyone know what to make of these new IRS rules that came into effect for 2014? (but I believe are back dated to 2011)It sounds to me like we can start deducting a large number of those repairs we used to have to...
Tom C
Working with Section 8
Guess I will throw this out here.. Just looking for opinions. Purely hypothetical situation, but could possible help some people out. Being a former cop, I always look for loop holes in policy, procedures and the law ...
Mike Ballew
Is the House Flipping Game Overplayed?
I am concerned that the house flipping market may be saturated. There’s a business principle that says the longer a product or service is on the market the less profitable it becomes. Look at the airline industry or...
Shane Pearlman
Catching Tenants Breaking Bad
Hey PBers.I'm a little scarred from tenants using my nice SFRs to build grow houses. It has only happened once, and through amazing luck, they turned out to be the nicest drug dealers ever and helped pay to remediate ...
Jeremy Segermeister
Mortgage Forbearance Impacting Credit Score?
Hi All,
I still can't seem to get a clear answer on exactly how loan forbearance will impact credit reports (not scores). I understand it will not impact my score, however, banks will see that I am in forbearance (wh...
Reed Jeffries
Is bankruptcy my best option?
Hey, this is a throwaway because I feel a bit of shame about my predicament: I’m looking into whether bankruptcy is the best option for me.I am 34, and had accumulated $110,000 of student loan debt and around $15,000 ...