Chris Pelley
Buy and Hold in Austin, TX
My wife and I just sold an investment property in CA and we are looking for new markets. I keep fining my way to Austin and I am trying to get more information on the area before I make the 12 hour drive from NM. Look...
Deano Vulcano
Do you always do a credit check?
I have hired a management company to screen prospective tenants for my apartments. But I just found out that they do not do credit checks. They said they do criminal record background checks, income verification, evic...
David A.
Dealing with Capital Gains Tax / RE Accountant?
I purchased a home in November 2017 and am putting it on the market March 1st - assuming that it sells fairly quickly, I'll have owned the house for under 2 years and will have to pay capital gains taxes (for referenc...
Luka Milicevic
The future of commercial real estate
Just curious what everyone thinks about the future of commercial real estate space. More retail going online only now. Large companies are saving money on office space by having employees work from home.Even doctors a...
Adam Tafel
My Niche: "the Dog-Friendly Medium-Term Furnished Rental"
Dumb luck (and a ton of work) got me into REI. In 2015 my girlfriend was spending 6/7 nights at my apartment. She had a cool little studio in a cool part of town, and we threw her apartment on Airbnb. A traveling nurs...
Jay Chekansky
Hendersonville, NC - SFR - Jay C
OK BP - it's about time I did this. I'm in the middle of my first rehab that doesn't involve me living in it...unless I'm at the house working after 10pm.I've completed and documented some vintage motorcycle builds o...
Pete M.
Vacancy dragging out - what are we missing?
We have a duplex in the Cayce area that's been completely vacant for a couple months now. We handed the property over to a PM, and while she's had showings, virtually none of those are being converted to applications...
John Whitfield
New to the Scene in NC
My account saying I've been on Biggerpockets for about a year now, but in truth I've been studying Real Estate off and on for a little more than that. It was only in the last 6 months did I realize just how little I k...
Sam Nichols
Advice on property manager not replying to calls for over a month
Hi all,long time lurker but I've run into a spot of trouble. I have a property in Memphis that the property manager has been managing fine for > 5 years and they recently became unresponsive to calls/emails and ha...
Ryan Bird
Chicago net migration trends
I’m interested in investing in northwest suburbs of Chicago but recently read a 2022 year end report that take about negative net migration in Illinois, specifically in cook county and city of Chicago. I could see suc...