Tamara Recinos
Have you Sought out Design Expertise for your Short-Term Rental?
Hosts and investors that are in the short-term rental space:Have you sought out design expertise for your short-term rental property?A well-designed space captures guests attention when scrolling through online listin...
Jorge J Gonzalez
Rental smells like cigarette smoke! How to get rid of the smell?
Just bought a new rental but the previous owner smoked a pack a day. The whole place smells like cigarette smoke. Painted the whole place but didn't even change the smell. The carpeting is only about one year old a...
Scott Lepore
Let's be realistic with the BRRRR thing
Okay, I'm tired of hearing how easy it is to BRRRR. And the numbers people (eh hem, Brandon) are not realistic IMHO. One example Brandon gives is $200k purchase, $40K fix, $10k soft costs, $350K ARV. First off, fi...
Jonathan Johnson
Appartment building
Hello BP! I think I found a good one!This is a 5 Story appartment complex outside downtown.First story is commercial businesses leasing out.Second story are 4 apartments all leased, I haven't seen anything but the hal...
Dave Versch
50% Rule clarification?
Can someone give me a definitive answer on the 50% rule? I understand the concept, that your expenses should only equal 50% of your gross rent in order to get positive cashflow. But which expenses are included in th...
Mark Allen
Landlording vs. Seller Financing
I'm currently in the Dallas - Ft. Worth market - I haven't been investing long (since 2009), but recently I've been turning my rentals into paper via seller financing. Many of these properties have mortgages with less...
Dawn Anastasi
Example: Hosting an "open house" type rental showing
Sometimes people post on Bigger Pockets about wanting to know "how" to do something ... not theoretically how, but specific examples. So here is an example of how I conduct/host an open house showing for a rental prop...
Scott W.
Mildew smell in house
I bought a house almost 10 years ago with an odor (yep, I had it inspected); people have described the smell as musty, an old dog smell, & an old house smell. When I was dating my wife, she'd go back to her place ...
Lance Turner
LTR with an STR ADU
I'm working on a new investment property. It has a standard 1600 SF 3/2 LTR but it has a 600 SF ADU 1/1 studio that I want to use as an STR.
Looking for advice since this will be my first STR.
1. What are the bes...
Christine Swaidan
Proactive or just wasting money?
I have an 11 year old water heater servicing 20 units. No problems just would rather not have it go out on a Friday night. Do you do scheduled change outs or just wait until it dies?