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Currently doing repairs from a tenant departure. Shocking how little regard people have for a brand new house that doesn't belong to them. Life lessons!One of the allowed deductions beyond material damage is wear tear...
Hello all,I have some tenants who recently clogged the upstairs toilet. In the process they broke the flushing handle and they had an overflow where the water flowed through the ceiling and caused some damage in the c...
I'm sure most folks have seen that JPMorgan Chase is tightening mortgage borrowing standards. What does the economic outlook mean for hard money lenders, and for portfolio lenders?I know it's not conventional lending ...
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Anyone here with experience rehabbing in both Dallas and Houston? Are the margins about the same or do they differ? Which do you prefer?
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Okay, I feel like an idiot admitting this, but over the last few months that I've been researching and learning about rei, I assumed that marketing was only done by wholesalers. I originally set out to buy several bu...
Hello Biggerpockets,I am looking at buying a property that has had fire damage and has since been renovated. The current owner doesn't seem to have any information on the fire or remediation as they apparently bought...
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I'm wondering if you were to have a do over when you were about to buy the home that you currently live, would you have paid what you paid for the house in community that you live in or paid more for a similar house i...
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Good evening BPers,I have been doing real estate investing for around five years in my area, I have flipped a few sfr with a small amount of success and a large amount of learning, I currently own two sfr one I am ren...
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I’m curious and wanna start up on house hacking
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I have a 1935 house that has the water pipes coming out of a common center wall to the kitchen on one side and bathroom on the other side of the wall. I assume the main water valve is behind the wall on both sides, b...