Lee L.
L.A. Earthquake Retrofit Bill
The L.A. City Council may soon pass major legislation to force owners of certain apartment buildings to retrofit their properties for earthquakes. According to the L.A. Times, the legislation may affect 13,500 wooden ...
Patrick Chiles
Are you willing to help the homeless?
There is a program under HUD (Emergency Solutions Grant Program) that provides money and incentives to property owners to rent their properties to people who are currently experiencing homelessness. And within this p...
Eric Bowlin
Why networking is important.
I've recently been thinking about the idea of social networking and this story came to my mind. This isn't a success story, nor a failure story. It's a story about something that didn't happen. A good friend of mine w...
Tory Sheffer
Cost Segregation Study for Taxes
We just completed taxes for 2020 and with cost segregation study for one property we were able to write off $640k in depreciation for 2020. We paid $1.97M for this property and closed in 4th Qtr 2020. With our structu...
Vicki Gleitz
Success by my definition.
My story will probably not sound even remotely like a success story to most of you, but to me it goes beyond success to near miracle.I joined Bigger Pockets well over a year ago. And I was so scared I was receiving c...
Chris Wiedeman
New member in Cininnati , Ohio
My partner and I have been investing on our own for about 10 years. Neither of use has ever read a book or gone to school for it. I'm a GC and handyman and have been in construction since I was 18, I'm 42 this year....
Dee Sivad
After tenant move out: Payment plan for unpaid rent
In Contra Costa County, CA. There's a long story I won't go into here, but I want to set up a payment plan with an ex-tenant in lieu of going to small claims. If anyone's done this, please respond - how did you g...
Corey Dutton
Avoid These Common Mistakes When Submitting a Hard Money Loan
From an article in the Scotsman Guide, traditional mortgage brokers often make mistakes when submitting hard money loans to hard money lenders. Because traditional brokers are well versed on how a bank lender likes to...
Nicholas McDonald
New to Apartments
My name is Nicholas McDonald, I am 20 years old looking to get into multifamily commercial real estate and am looking for advice on how to get my first deal and how to analyze a bigger property with more units. Any he...
Jeremy Bottlinger
Education is Important
As part of my ideology that education should be free, I will be making a monthly post (if not more often) related to real estate, because a better educated society results in better social and economic opportunities f...