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I don't know about everyone else, but I got into real estate to be an investor: to buy/sell/rent. I don't want to burn my Saturdays running around unlocking doors for prospective buyers/tenants or meeting up with con...
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Hello BP People! I know that this topic has been beat to death already and that the general consensus is to house hack before buying, however, my situation is a little unique and I would appreciate some input from the...
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Can anyone give any insight as to what costar costs? I know it varies, and their website is very ambiguous, but I wanted to see if anyone knew what it would cost for a single license for a small investing business. I ...
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I am currently setting up my goals and would like to be realistic in my projected returns, because a couple of percentage points make such a huge difference.My goal is to use $60K of my own cash from income or to use ...
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So I used Postlets to advertise my rent house on Hotpads, etc. Now someone has hijacked my ad, is using the same pics and description but with a different phone number and email address.
One potential tenant ...
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I owned a rental property in Adelanto, CA. Monthly rental income raised to $1000, $600 security deposit. This tenant leased for 6 years and just moved out last week. So my PM done the inspection there. Found out I hav...
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Hi AllTenants lost power throughout the house. Electrician was called to investigate the problem. He said there was a power surge and got the lights working. The furnace quit working. My furnace guy said that the fur...
Hello,I am looking to choose a market to start diving into. As I know it takes quite a lot of work to set up a BRRRR operation I would like to start by picking one market to work on.I will be working out of California...
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For those who self manage, I wanted to share a great bank I've been using called Baselane. Baselane is a bank that also has property management software and book keeping capabilities. As a manager of over 20 units, it...
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One funny thing about people is that while we are almost always well intentioned, we seem to do a lot of things that are just plain crazy. I, for example, still prefer to eat my oranges by dissecting each into their i...