I've been renting my house to a friend and his wife for the last 2 years. That was a mistake. They were always late, had dogs, chickens, painted rooms absurd colors, and got paint everywhere. About 2 months ago I s...
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I have a potential tenant for a residential home in Mesa AZ who wants to use the rental property as a group home. I spoke with our landlord/tenant attorney, and he said it would need to be a commercial lease, since t...
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Hello and good day.I just got a home under contract and am wondering what is the next step.Do I let me Cash Buyers know I have the property under contract and start releasing the property address or do I contact my ti...
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With regards to non-performing institutional notes, I get asked weekly by various folks to provide them with my sellers and avenues for obtaining tapes. This obviously stems from a shortage of deal flow within the ind...
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I want to hear from investors who got their start long before the infamous housing market crash of '07, '08, '09...... What one or two things do you do differently NOW because of what you learned THEN? Don't hold back...
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Hi BiggerPocketers:Howdy all? Here is my situation.Current primary home (A) has 440K loan at only 3.6% 30 year loan. The property shows a zestimate of 1.5m though for all practical purpose it will probably go for 1.3m...
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Hi BP!I'm trying to figure out what else I can do or subscribe to, with the purpose of generating more leads. To date, I have:
Found my niche (BRRRR)Defined my market (KC metro with good schools)Connected with severa...
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So...if one receives a large insurance claim and decides to pocket it initially to pay off a mortgage and later does the property repairs what are the tax consequences? Using the dollars to pay off the mortgage initi...
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We perform a quarterly property inspection currently during which we change air filters, check smoke / CO2 detectors and look for signs of water issues (toilets aren't running, nothing under sinks.)I'm still learning ...
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First things first... Happy New Year everyone! I hope your 2015 is off to a good start. I have a hypothetical scenario for you to ponder. Let's say you are looking at purchasing a performing note, but after doing t...