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Hi Folks,I am looking to purchase my first investment property (either a SF home or less than 5 MF units) and plan to hold it in an LLC, with myself the only member and the member-manager. A couple questions about th...
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I finally took the plunge and purchased my first property last month and now I have the fever! LOL. I am now zeroing in on short term rentals. Specifically in Galena, IL which from first glance seems to have the abil...
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I found BiggerPockets about 2 years ago. It has been an amazing time learning so much about real estate investing and hearing all of the incredible stories from amazing investors around the world.In the past 6 months ...
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Since the pandemic hit in late March, many are not sure how they feel about staying at hotels or short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Tripadvisor Rentals. Airbnb, with 7.7 million active ...
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Hello everyone,I’m looking into house hacking and wanted to hear some opinions on house hacking a duplex vs a single family home. It seems like a duplex is the better option as far as numbers wise with halving multipl...
Hi everyone! I am so thrilled I found this forum because my husband and I can't decide if we should take the risk with a potentially really great investment out of state. Some more info:
This pro...
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https://chicagocitywire.com/st...More than 163,000 Cook County property taxpayers didn’t pay their
bills this year, according to an analysis of Cook County Treasurer
records by Chicago City Wire. That’s about 9 pe...
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Amazon narrows the list of metro areas for its new headquarters to 20Amazon says it has narrowed the list of places for its second headquarters to 20.The company says it will spend $5 billion in the area where it buil...
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I recently posed this same question regarding Lake LBJ & Lago Vista, but I was wondering if anyone has any experience with STRs in Canyon Lake, TX? I only have long term rentals and am looking at investing in a la...