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I'm trying to save 1200 a month to invest on new properties. I'm having trouble making a detailed and in depth budget that I can study and stick to over time. Are there any tools you've found that help develop a budge...
Just wanted to ask a question regarding rent increases. I have 2 buy and hold properties. My wife and I bought our 1st rental in 2010 and 2nd in 2014. We have always been of the mindset of keeping the property up to d...
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Does anyone do any cold calling to spefic list to buy properties? If so, can you describe what you do? Do you have a script you use? How well does it work, etc. Thanks!
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Just wanted to start a conversation about strategies for dealing with potential renters who have poor credit, a bankruptcy and several delinquent accounts. For example right now, I have a potential renter who is in he...
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Hey BP, So I live in Los Angeles, land of Rent Control.. There are rent control buildings that have hit the market and they sit for a really long time because either the seller doesnt want to the reduce the price enou...
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Hey guys!
I am looking for a property management (PM) out of state, and I came across this PM that ALLOWS unsupervised showings from a lockbox... I was advised they require the prospective renters to take a pic of the...
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How does wholesaling work and what are the advantages?
do you think its a good place for a newbie to start out?
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First off, I did search forums and these are the two answers I got :
"My best advice and the safest advice for you, don't estimate rehab costs for them. There are too many factors outside of your control that contrib...
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Hi
As part of rehab, I am trying to paint a house? Its a 1100 sq ft house with 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bath. The property is in Philadelphia area. I am trying to just use one color (light grey) for walls and white for...
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I'm preparing to send my first wave of direct mail in the next couple days (planning to buy the list on Saturday [600/700 or so] and yellow letters on Sunday) and I've sort of been ignoring the idea of doing direct ma...