Scott C.
Making handyman pay for leak repair
This may be a stupid question but I wanted to get some feedback from the community. We are rehabbing our third rental property and I have a handyman doing most of the work. One of the things I needed him to do wa...
Kyle B.
Splitting Profits with Partner on Rehab
I have a financing partner for potential rehabs I plan on doing and wanted to get BP's input on how to structure the profit split of these deals.
Some background information - I will be doing all the work from start...
Scott Passman
Trusting "deals" as out of state investor
As a new investor looking to invest out of state, I'm finding it very difficult to know when a deal is actually a deal. I have spent a lot of time tracking the MLS, Zillow, redfin etc. and reading up on the varying ne...
Scott Riggott
Bad Living Situation
I'll try to keep this as short as possible (ok, just finished - it is rather long). I included a redacted version of my lease below a bunch of equal signs (====) for anyone who really wants to read into this.
TLDR: ...
Ken Latchers
Landlords - What are all your practical Money savers?
I thought it would be nice to have a collecting point for day to day money/time savers for rentals. Some things I do or have seen on the forum so far:
Remove storm doors.
Advertise rentals on craigslist
Remove or lo...
Josh Jacobsen
Land Contracts.
Hi Friends, I'm a huge fan of the collective wisdom of BiggerPockets, and wanted to seek out a few ideas. There is an apartment building listed on the MLS that I've been fantasizing over for several weeks, and after m...
Jerryll Noorden
PLEASE start using common sense to become successful not LUCK!
How many of you all are landlords?
In other words, how many of you all own more than 1 house, do not live in said second house and have a tenant in said house?
Great.
Now how many of you when you are fed up wit...
Konrad Lightner
Ben Leybovich says that making down-payments is not smart – thoughts?
Ben's latest article suggested this and he thought it would be a good forum post to check out what other people think. Check out his article, it's a good read. http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/09/02...Se...
Valerie Smith
Painting cabinets-BRRRR return on investment
Looking at a duplex listed for $106k to BRRRR. We think it could maybe appraise around $130k ARV. It’s in a B neighborhood. They have 90’s oak cabinets with off-white Formica countertops. One thought is we don’t want ...
Arn Cenedella
Buy Treasuries or Real Estate?
While the 5% “risk free” Tbills looks attractive………….
It also at least partially assumes an investor can time the bottom of the real estate market.
Perhaps one CAN time the market……….
I went to Colgate University...