Marcus Cox
What to do with 20,000 cash?
I've recently came into a few dollars and I have been interested in multi family small apartments. Any suggestions would help,Such as a broker that specializes in the multi family arena. I reside in Knoxville TN. By t...
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Email scam almost cost me 1 million dollars
I’m in escrow and today I almost got scammed out of 1 million dollars +.A scammer intercepted some emails and pretended to be the escrow officer from the title company. They sent me wiring instructions for over $1 mil...
Astrid Dymond
Applicant offers to pre-pay a year's rent in cash
I just had a prospective tenant tell me that he would want to pre-pay the yearly rental fee in cash upfront because "that is just the way he does business." My gut tells me that this is a red flag. I would still scr...
Chris Sullens
Wholesaler wants to me to close first?
I'm in the final stages of buying my first investment property here in Oklahoma City, where I live. I'm buying from a wholesaler, who has been very unreliable. I thought the deal was going to fall through several time...
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Transfer Taxes on Double Closing
How many Wholesalers doing Double Closings are paying the Real Estate Transfer Taxes?These can be quite expensive in some places. For instance The State of Pennsylvania charges 1% of the sales price and the munici...
Steve Dove
VRBO- Forcing your hand to online bookings.
It's been a while since I have posted, as like you, I have been busy. I wanted to get some of your thoughts on the recent changes that VRBO / Homeaway have made, which forces property owners to use their online bookin...
Brandon McCombs
tenant in jail before he can give me forwarding address
Hello,I have a tenant and rental unit in Ohio. My tenant moved out Nov 30 and said when I'm ready to return his security deposit he will give me a forwarding address at that time since he doesn't know where he will be...
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Direct mailing scripts
Hi everyone, as I am getting ready to start sending out yellow letter I have a couple of questions.
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If I don't have good handwriting would it really have a negative effect on my results, I was going to hand write ...
Oscar Padilla
Financing deals in the 70-80k, range.
Hello, I am an out of state investor from California looking at the Ohio Market, I was wondering what would be best practices to get financing for deals less than 70k, banks and lenders I have contacted have mentioned...
Chris U.
Closing TOMORROW - Emergency Replacement Mortgage Needed
Hey BiggerPockets, Didn't think I'd find myself in this situation. We've been working with a mortgage lender the last few weeks and have already signed the closing disclosure on a $170K investment townhome. Our closin...