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Austin Craven Picking a market as a new Real Estate Investor
21 December 2019 | 16 replies

Hello Bigger Pockets!This is my first post on Bigger Pockets and I was looking to introduce myself. I am an aspiring Real Estate Investor who is looking to purchase a Multi-Family property to House Hack as a first tim...

Michael Florence Getting a Mortage for First Rental Property, and More
21 October 2016 | 17 replies

Hi everyone!I am new to this forum and to property investment and am interested in starting. I have been doing some preliminary research, and the real estate in Texas seemspretty worth investing. What do you think? I ...

Mark Hu How do they screen illegal immigrant tenants?
2 December 2013 | 33 replies

I have been looking at properties in a largely hispanic apartment area. I'm curious how would the landlords here screen their tenants? Since most of the tenants here are illegal immigrants they probably have no credit...

John Nachtigall 1 in 5 Tenets Struggle to Pay Rent
27 October 2017 | 16 replies

A very interesting article on rising rentsBloomberg Article   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26...Actual Survey   https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rental-i...Some of the points I thought were...

Evan Bell Multi family as Airbnb??
5 May 2019 | 27 replies

Just wondering if any of you have used your multi family properties as Airbnb instead of for long term tenants, or a mix of Airbnb and long term.

I just had this thought driving home from a buy and hold Meetup last ...

Azita S. I took a 5 yr hiatus and not sure where to start again
22 December 2019 | 18 replies

I live in Portland OR and since the market has always been hot here, I decided to invest out of state.I started investing in RE in 2013 and when the market was down I bought 2 SF in Peoria AZ and they are being manage...

Marty Summers From Job to Multi-Family Apartments income
26 April 2017 | 24 replies

Has anyone in here gone from a Corporate job they hated to real-estate income rather quickly?I have some capital to invest... could pull 100K.  What if I went big into a down payment on an apartment complex?  Any stor...

Peter Korty What is the General Over Inflation of the MLS in Your Area?
4 May 2020 | 15 replies

Hi BP Community,
So I know that this has been asked/stated like a million times, but I didn't quite find what I was looking for as a newbie, so here it is with a little background.
I've been practicing deal analysis...

Marissa Mallamo Married tenants..joint application, separate, or just one spouse?
6 May 2016 | 14 replies

Hi BP!

As new landlords, we do not have enough experience with the screening process, and would like to get advice from others.

We have a married couple wanting to apply and I am planning to use Cozy to screen them....

Dan C. how do you discourage tag-along boyfriend occupants
20 January 2017 | 29 replies

How do you discourage tag-along boyfriend occupants?I almost rented a place out to a young woman but it ultimately did not work out.However as it fell through I recognized that she had fully intended for a boyfriend t...