Jeff Ausdemore
What's your favorite site (or method) to find your next tenant?
Hello BP'ers!My wife and I are wrapping up the details on our 2nd SFH here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Thanks to a few meet ups and the fantastic podcasts/webinars on BP, we're "all in" these days for real estate t...
Gene Hacker
Best ways to market to busy agents
I am looking for opinions on the best way to reach out to busy agents for my Home Inspection buisness. I have contacted the agents I know personally with great results but I would like to introduce myseld and my s...
Corey Dutton
Foreclosures Will Continue to Trickle Into the Market in 2013
Realtytrac came out with a report last week that showed tremendous increases from 2011 in the foreclosure start rates in several U.S. States including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. New Jersey reporting a sho...
Taniece Minor
Report payments to credit bureaus. Suggestions??
Hello everyone! We have a buyer who is interested in a home but wants the seller to report all payments. I, personally, never heard of any landlords or investors reporting payments. But I'm sure there is a way. I have...
Marcia Maynard
Move-In Inspection Checklist - streamlining the process. What do you do?
When moving a tenant in, it is easy to skimp with the move-in inspection check list (or "Property Condition Report", as we call it) yet it is a critical document. I'm looking to improve my process for getting this...
Andrea M.
Buyer Beware...City Liens/Codes Compliance...
We recently purchased 2 properties right next door to each other with the plans of working on one at a time..2 weeks into the rehab on the first property Codes/Compliance shows up and says that the properties are on t...
Kiley Harris
Renting Rooms to Friends
Hi! I just bought a house and am having my current roommate (friend) move in with me + potentially adding another roommate to rent out the third bedroom. Are there any tips you could give me in terms of writing a leas...
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I am closing on land to develop a sub-division
I have recently invested with a developing to firm to purchase a sub-division. I am fairly new at the the whole investing game but the owner of the development firm took me under their wing and decided to walk me thro...
Paul C.
Interest deduction for line of credit
Wondering if someone knows the answer to these tax questions... perhaps @Steven Hamilton II ?If you use a line of credit to finance the purchase of a rental property (not a HELOC), I know the interest is tax deductibl...
Merritt Harris
Cohosting and Property Management Payout structure
I realized that my property management contract states that I'm paid 20% of gross revenue, but in fact, I pay the cleaners their fee first (I mark it up a little on my OTA to factor for platform fees) and then I take ...