Kate K.
How to valuate deductions from Security Deposit properly?
Our property is in Lake County, IL and we are going through a 1st transition from 1st tenants to our 2nd ones. Tenants that moved out this month, left some damages behind (some repairable and some not) as well as didn...
Josh Dotzler
Aligning Investor's Goals with Property Manager's Goals
Hello BP Investors,I have been in debate with another property manager about the merits of an alternate pricing strategy. I would like to hear the opinions from investors and other PMs out there.Typical PM Charges for...
Jorge P.
Water coming into My Basement Rental - AHHHHH
Pic #1: This is the water I found in one of my rentals that’s about 5’ below grade. This came AFTER we had finished doing a foundation waterproofing around the perimeter of the house! - How could this happen!?I had t...
Immanuel Pierre
Having mentor Struggles
I have been real estate investing for about a year now and have ran across a few mentors. I personally feel like I look for ways to bring value to mentor but, struggle with finding the right mentor for me that is alig...
Scott K.
With apologies, another "What should I do?" post (but with a few twists)
Hello to the community. I know there are at least 100 threads on this great site that deal with “getting started,” and assure you that I have tried to digest as much as possible before resorting to another “help...
Abdul R.
QE3 and Real Estate - Your thoughts
As you may have heard, today Fed annouced QE3 of 40B per month (i.e. printing press) with no end in sight. Precious metals soared instantly along with the stock market. I wonder what it means to the real estate market...
Jesse S.
House hacking in Brooklyn seems impossible
A little background..... I live in Brooklyn with my wife and 2 kids. We love real estate but find ourselves priced out of our local market. We own two out of state SFRs that we bought turnkey and they are performing w...
Gabriel Craft
$10,000,000 to deploy -- where would you put it?
Ok. Hypothetical. You have $10,000,000 to deploy. You have to deploy it right away or you lose the money. What would you put it into? (it should all go in one asset type and class). My hope is that this helps people s...
Kyle Glasgow
Listing price: reduce or be patient!
Just listed my first flip. My agent did the comps and after doing my research I instructed her to list a bit lower. The property is at 20 DOM now and there has been 4 viewing with no offers. This flip is in Baltimore ...
Burke B.
Reasonable Property Management Fee Structure?
I have a question for any members that have a good amount of experience with property managers. I apologize for the length of the post.
I currently own a property in another state and have a property manager who man...