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How many of you deal with maintenance day in and day out... Or just deal with pain in the butt tenants hitting you up while you're at your 9-5 to point out that a bee got into their house and they don't know why.How d...
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Hi all,For those unfamiliar with the South Florida (east coast) market, the influx of foreign investors with cash seems to have seriously skewed the evaluation criteria of properties. We just came back from the area, ...
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Hi All,
I'm doing some STR research prior to buying a property to use for vacation rental and I wanted to hear from you all what are the typical STR monthly expenses? I can think of mortgage, taxes, insurance, STR in...
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Hello everyone,We found an off market deal in San Diego. It is our first apartment deal and we have been looking for a little while. As some of you know San Diego like many populated city, the cap rate and cash on cas...
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I have a tenant who lives in a walk-out basement unit in central IL. She rarely runs her heat and hasn't used the A/C once in the two years she's lived there since being sunken into the earth keeps the unit fairly co...
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Hey there, anyone who can help, thanks in advance. My tenant is late 9 days and I haven't seen anyone there in a while. It's a duplex - I'm upstairs, they were downstairs. The thing is - she told me they were havi...
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I have been onboarding properties and automating them through Hostfully for a friend who is a real estate investor. We had agreed on a specific price for this initial process. She recently approached me about taking o...
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I wanted post a warning to my fellow community members. Currently the BP podcast is sponsored by a company called vacasa. i have been using vacasa as my management company for two summers now to manage my property in ...
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Hello all, I have been renting my first property for about 5 months now to a section 8 tenant.
This property was my personal home for about 5 years and I decided to rent out and test the landlord setting out.
The h...
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I am a total newbie sitting on my first lead. I have int. and ext. pics from the property (vacant) and have built a relationship with the absentee owner but I need some help estimating the repair costs.If anyone could...