John K.
Roommates changing out in large house and security deposits
Let's say you have a house with 4 tenants in a college area, and every year one or two people leave, and their friends become the new tenants (after applying, screening, etc, etc, etc). How do you handle security dep...
Trevor Lakin
First time homebuyers grant??!
Hello there!!!
First of all, I want to give a HUGE thanks to BP for creating this platform to facilitate discussion/knowledge exchange for real estate investment. I haven’t used BP to it’s best potential but I plan ...
Benjamin Haberman
Do you provide trash cans at rentals?
BP community,
I just filled my top unit of my duplex and my tenants are asking where the trash cans are. The bottom unit has been in there for 3 months and have never asked for trash cans and come to think of it, i ...
Rachel H.
Rent to Tenants with Large Credit Card Debt?
Hi everyone. I have applicants (a professional couple in their thirties) to rent a single-family home I own. They seem like fine people - no reason to believe otherwise. Their combined income is 7x rent. Their credit ...
Bianca Rodrigues
How to Identify Up and Coming Neighborhoods for REI
Hi All!How to identify up and coming neighborhoods for real estate investment? What websites or databases do you use for this research?Thank you.
AJ Felix
Just starting out scenario
What would a beginner and successful buy and hold investor do in this scenario. The scenario is you are just starting out and have $100,000 cash to begin investing in real estate, you also have no debts besides reside...
Gregg Wood
The Incredible Shrinking Real Estate Investor
Investors continue to be a big percentage of home sales although overall home sales are rather low. Big investors started pulling back from the housing market late in 2013 and steadily into 2014. But even as that tr...
Jared Trindade
Real Estate Market in Raleigh NC #1.5
This is a 5 month update to the real estate market data thread for Raleigh NC. Previous Post: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...
This is post 1.5 for the Raleigh Real Estate Market Data Thread.
This is a Chat GPT rep...
Anthony Duann
Market research for inclusion into REI business plan
Dear Fellow BPers,When creating a business plan for LLC's under the market research, how did you approach this section as regards to the tenants/ target customers criteria. (for example, age group(s), occupations, ren...
Jem J.
Student renters questions
I have several students interested to rent. Their questions are:1" In regards to prohibited flammable materials, propane grill is ok ? What about household chemicals which are considered toxic or flammable , will thes...