Courtney Oldrin
I am a disaster with the financial accounting for investing
Hello from cold and windy mid-coast Maine!
I'm a newbie in the landlording business and I desperately need help figuring out how to set up a system to track the finances for the properties we have. My strength is id...
Scott Passman
Analyzing and tracking decisions long term- do you?
I keep an excel spreadsheet detailing all of my investment decisions, RE and non-RE, as a tool for me to use long-term to update and analyze my decision making skills. The way I have it outlined is very simple using ...
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Ettiquete for meeting new investors
Hello all -
I am planning to join the Real Estate Investors Association of Columbus here soon, and I was wondering what the best way to introduce myself as a potential investor/wholesaler is? Business cards, a firm h...
Nick E.
Closing early January 2016. Tax consequences
Hello,I will be closing on my first rental property on January 5th. The house needs numerous small "repairs" that we are planning on completing in the first few days of owning it. Most of these items are small like ...
Ben Bakhshi
Advice: Bank sold us one property, with two houses on it, already 2 parcels, but 1 address on the deed.
Has this happened to anyone else?We bought a Freddie Mac foreclosure recently for under $50,000. We assumed we were buying 1 house on 1 lot. I didn't pay special attention to the warranty deed at the time of the purch...
Frank M.
Zoning - How Do I Know if I Can Rent a House in a Given Area
Hello all, this is first post ever..apologies if this is somewhere on the site but i cannot find it.I need some basic info on Zoning: where to find it, what the zoning classification means, what I have to do to get a...
Andrew Burrell
LLC Creation Advice
Hey BP community,I am an investor with two single family properties in Northwest Arkansas. I currently have these homes in my personal name, but have been debating whether or not to create an LLC for these rentals.I a...
Marc Cohen
Poughkeepsie NY Real Estate Investing
Good Afernoon BP,Looking to invest in the Poughkeepsie NY area. Was wondering from those who are familiar with the area if it is a good location for buy and hold investing? What are the negatives? Preferably looking f...
George Hariri
Finding Neighborhoods for Rental Properties
I have a mentor who gave me the advice to identify an area that I want to invest in, a zipcode or two, and learn it inside and out. He has small sections of his market that he knows better than anyone else, he is able...
James Roux
Tenant not transferring utilities
I have a new tenant and this is my first rental property who has had the property for a week now. He hasn’t moved in yet to be fair but in his lease I noted that tenant must transfer utilities with in 3 days in his le...