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Hello BP! As some of you may know, I recently became a landlord over the weekend through my first house-hack. I'm attributing this issue to being new to the game, and not executing my application/screening process as ...
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We are moving from Long Beach, CA to Chandler, AZ. We are trying to decide what to do with our current house. I asked a friend and he posed an interesting question. Imagine you had $350k (which is the cash our equi...
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Hi All, I have a landlord-renter dispute that I was wanting to run by you all to gather some input before I proceed further.
For some background, I bought a property in a small college town in July 18’ in which I inh...
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I may be the only one with these property management issues but it seems to be a recurring theme.
I've owned 4 rental units in a particular farm area. Almost without fail every single property management company I've...
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Whether I'm showing a unit, or at a cocktail party when people ask me what I do, I inevitably get the question "how many units do you own"? To me, this is quite rude and they are basically asking me how much my portfo...
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After months of frustrating exchanges between the agent, seller and I. I have finally closed on my first property. I'm 21 years old and am very excited to begin my journey into real estate. Give me 10 years and I'll h...
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Hi Everyone - I have 3 STRs and have gotten very serious with looking at the full financial picture on them now that we have a CPA. We just bought the last two in the last 6 months, but have had our first for almost 5...
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I'm under contract to buy a 6 unit, mixed-use property with seller financing. The seller will provide $700,000 of the $945,000 required. They are giving me 45 days to show proof of funds for the $245,000 so I need to ...
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Hello all. I've gone through so much turmoil in life . . .including beating cancer 3X . . .so to come to this point as I finally have been granted a 3rd chance at life is frustrating to say the least. My offer was acc...
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Hi everyone!So my question is pretty straightforward. I am a new Real Estate agent and I wonder if I should Americanize my name to gain that initial connection with clients? A lot of people have difficulties pronounci...