I'm looking at a single family home in Baltimore. I would like to create an in-law suite of sorts, add a separate entrance plus kitchenette, and rent it out. Does anyone know if there are particular regulations around...
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*Title Edit: Which Matters More: Lower Interest Rate or Lower Monthly Payment?
Novice Investor here
Would it make more sense to go with:
- higher interest rate
- less money down
- no PMI (bc of higher interest ra...
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We started savings accounts for our boys pretty early on and our 13 year old has a decent amount saved but it's making pennies.. I wanted to help/show him a better way of investing; Real Estate. Since he's a minor, w...
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So I have a furnished STR l that I property manage in my area and I got my last booking through Airbnb, but I wanted to expand our marketing across multiple platforms. I went to VRBO to add in our listing and when I g...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Pottstown.
Purchase price: $56,000
Cash invested: $56,000
This is my first real-estate investment.
What made you inter...
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Who would be willing to share a simple Confidentiality agreement? Ken McIlroy points out in the ABCs of Real Estate this is essential in establishing professionalism when approaching owners of off market property.It ...
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About a half dozen times in the last six months alone, and about 20+ times in the last 5 years, I've had a situation where our offer was higher than the property's sales price, yet the property was sold to some other ...
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Hello BP community,I want to take advantage of the equity i've built in a couple of my properties (one is a rental and fully paid off. The other is personal residence and is 70% paid off) and use it as a downpayment o...
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We did background checks of a few tenants and selected the best. One of the tenant that was not selected of asking for the report and send the copy of paystubs back in email. Is this required by law or safe to send fo...
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Hey, BiggerPockets community! I'm Logan Winn, and I'm thrilled to be part of this network. After a fulfilling career in corporate sales, I've leaped into my passion, founding JG Academy Tracy, a jiujitsu gym in Tracy,...