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Hello BP,Long time lurker, looking for my first property, aiming for a live in multifamily. We’ll live in for the first few years, hopefully having $1,000 per month from having no rent.I’m a bit long winded, so I apo...
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Hi BP Community - I have a STR in Lake Tahoe and feel the demographic of the area indicates guests from surrounding San Fran area would filter properties and search for those with an Elec Charging. 1. Have people foun...
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This post applies to Maine landlords, but may be useful for others as well. For 10 years I used padzilla, also known as tenant-net, for eviction and credit report screening. They did an inspection of my office so th...
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Does anyone have any employees working for them? I'm to the point where I need to bring someone on to help with the maintenance and some light rehab work.
I was wondering how you go about looking for employees and...
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Why don't real estate agents list properties for free and collect the buyer leads? It's seems like listing properties generates a lot of leads. You won't get 6% commission but you can make 3% on the buy side.Maybe I'm...
I thought it might be interesting to see what made many here decide they wanted to be Real Estate investors in life. I also thought it might be interesting to know how long they took to get up and decide to do their f...
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Hello everybody,
I'm new to the BiggerPockets community, so I look forward to meeting you all and having some wonderful, engaging conversations.
Let's get right into it. I've recently taken over the fitness center i...
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Greetings!My name is Mack and I am a new investor in the Providence Rhode Island area. I heard about BP from my Wife's uncle who I just met on vacation in Canada. He is an Investor in Durham NC and filled me in on thi...
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Can someone explain why a prefab house won't appreciate the same as a stick built.
Here is a link to what I think a modular prefab or manufactured home is.
http://www.apexhomesinc.com/apex/plan/cottonwood.htm
I don...
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After writing this, I now realize it's pretty long, so I put the main focus and details of the deal in bold and the rest of the fluff in italics.Prior to successfully completing my first real estate deal, one of the t...