Hello Bigger Pockets!My partner and I are beginning to brainstorm about the best way to structure a new entity for the purpose of accepting outside investors to fund our flips.  The goal would be to raise capital from...

I've been getting GREAT results from my property marketing lately, but one thing that's been weird is the people who ask us to email them an application are typically not filling it out.We do tell them it's $35 for th...

we know that commercial real estate really depends on interest rate.but what's the relationship between illegal immigration and CRE ? well, there's relationship.All these theory is surfacing lately. We know the unempl...

I'm purchasing a property with an existing tenant who has expressed a desire to stay. I'm very new to this; how does this work?- Do they sign a new lease with me or does their existing one transfer? If the existing on...

I recently purchased a duplex in Fairfield county. Each unit is 2 beds, 1 bath, 9 ft ceilings, parque floors, both apts are 1066 sq ft. Cost: 600kDown:25%When I bought the property one unit was empty and the other uni...

would you guys agree that cap rate in League City, Katy, Pearland, and Texas City is still 4.75-7.5%?

My tenants of 3 years will be moving and I will be going through the application process again.  I was thinking that I would begin to process the basics of the applications first : verifying employment, income and pre...

Hey BP friends! My wife and I are getting ready to put one of our units up for rent for the first time. We are looking into the screening process and realized we could/should charge an application fee. We have reserva...

Anybody have a good rental application they can send me? Also, who do you use to run credit and background checks?  

I use pacer.gov to search court cases, which is very useful.  I was wondering what other sites you guys use for screening tenants before paying for credit and backround checks.