Hattie Dizmond
How do I approach an investor about selling their property?
I've mostly excluded "true" investors from my direct mail campaigns, meaning I've excluded LLC's & other entities. I've also excluded individuals holding multiple properties. I haven't eliminated them. I've jus...
Vee L.
Separate entities to manage vacation rentals?
I'm in Houston, TX. I have a few Short-term vacation rentals that owned by an LLC. I have been managing them in this existing LLC. I plan on scaling up and adding a few more of these. Should I create a property manage...
Joshua Dorkin
Diary of a New Construction Project
Back in March 2013, BiggerPockets and J Scott collaborated to release two books -- The Book on Flipping Houses and The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs (check them out here if you haven't already). As part of the book ...
Kirti Patel
How I lost 200k investing in Rehab project
I was new to Real Investment, and wanted to learn it so I can generate decent retirement income out of my lifelong savings. I attended REIA meetups(2015) run by Matterhorn Group in Chicago, run by Bob Brock, peter ki...
Travis Williams
New to the forum... my 1st (and 2nd) deals
Hello everyone!! My name is Travis. I've been browsing these forums for a while as well as doing my own reading/research about real estate investing for quite a while. My wife and I have decided to do this as a side...
Nicole Heasley Beitenman
Closing some of my credit cards makes sense to me. Am I correct?
Hi BP! I was talking to a friend of mine about credit. He says that each person is worth a certain amount of credit based on their income. Here was his example: Say you make $70k per year. You are then worth $200 in c...
Tim Shin
2016 Houston Buy & Hold Rental neighborhoods in $70-150k?
Calling all Houston Area Real Estate Investors! My wife and I have some big goals this year and we'd like to get into Buy & Hold Rentals in the Houston area! I think this is going to be a great year to get into th...
Andrew McGuire
Best Places To Invest In Phoenix - Agree or Disagree
Phoenix is the largest metropolitan area in Arizona and 5th largest city in the country with a population of 1.6M people. When you include the entire Phoenix Metropolitan area it triples that and is right at 5M people...
Peter Hynes
New Real Estate Investors - What Entity?
Hi folks. New to the site and new to real estate investing (although I just finished with The Book on Rental Property Investing).My uncle (age 57) and I (age 48) want to start investing in residential single-family r...
Keith Hebert
need pro advice on whether to hire an in-house bookkeeper
Hello fellow investors,I need some professional insight. We have several dozen rental properties, flip a few houses per year and are just getting ready to add a new venture with a few short term Airbnb's. I've had and...