Doug Smith
Why, Oh Why, Is the Fed's Inflation Target 2% (a rant)
I would love to get a discussion going over this topic to see what other "in the know" armchair economists think. This chart shows mortgage interest rates over the past 30 days. Rates are directly tied to the 10-Year ...
Account Closed
Water availability/sustainability long term
Hello all I am considering getting a primary residence to house hack next year and I am trying to decide on what market I would like to be in. This would be a buy and hold SFH (Maybe 3 bed 3 bath?) and cash flow deal....
Collin Hays
Top 10 guest calls for help so far in 2022
I am always fascinated at the things guests encounter at cabins in the Smokies. We keep a log of things that we have physically had to go out and address. So far for 2022, this is our "ESPN Top 10" list:
1. "There...
Seshu Yaramala
First time home buyer - Multi-Family deal analysis help
Hello All,I am looking to buy my first real estate property and decided to start with the multi-family house. I have found one 4 unit house and looking for your help with deal analysis, below are the details of the pr...
Cheng Zhou
Buy rental property in Oakland or Sacramento
Hi BiggerPockets members,I am new to BiggerPockets, so I want to start out by saying hello! I am located in the Bay Area and thinking of buying my first investment rental property. I have a budget around 600k, and wit...
Michael Plaks
Lenders v. CPAs war: automobile depreciation
How you write off your auto expenses does matter for taxes. It also does matter for loan underwriting. Notoriously, lenders and CPAs do not understand each others' rules and are often locked in needless conflicts. Fre...
Jonathan Taylor
I bought my first rental with HELOC but need creative Cash out Refi
Hi Everyone, First time here on Bigger Pockets. I had always wanted to buy my first investment house, to fix up and rent. Opportunity came up in June 2022, off market so I used my HELOC and some personal family loans ...
Felix Stone
Can we use an alias or psuedo name to communicate with tenants?
Hi - We are 3 partners who are buying rentals in LLCs and we also started a property management company(PMC) to self manage these properties. The PMC communicates with tenants, collect rents so on so forth. For privac...
Indar Lange
Investing in Hawaii; Ask me how I’m killing it
We been flipping in Hawaii now for some time. We have 10 projects going now and buying 3 more. At first everyone said it couldn’t be done. But I didn’t care I was going figure it out. We just hit 7 figures in profit a...
Benny Anand
Mont and Bux County Sheriff's Sales
Does anyone know if properties purchased from either Montgomery or Bucks County Sheriff's Sales are able to have title insurance issued on those properties? I recently purchased a property at MontCo tax sale and have...