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Hi everyone! I'v been lurking on here for a while and decided it's time to start trying to contribute. I'm a software engineer in the Bay Area and am considering turnkey investing since I don't have the time or expert...
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Greetings BP Family My wife and I are investors in the Maryland area and our overall strategy is buy-and-hold while using the BRR strategy. We know that we will find better deals if we have cash, and although we are c...
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Has anyone tried tenant mediation over eviction? I have a section 8 tenant who is just chronically bad with managing his life. Gave wife money to pay rent, she left with the money, his wrong won't ring when I call him...
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I have heard all the horror stories of 'Bad Tenants' who trash / destroy / gut the landlords properties, and read about the how-to's on hedging against it. The thing I don't know who would fit the criteria of a 'Good...
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Very weird situation we have got ourselves into. We purchased a major rehab building in New York about a year ago. The real estate agent was also in property management, ran his own PM firm and his family has run a c...
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Add this to the stories of nightmare tenants...My tenant was late on rent payments month after month. She ends up writing two bad checks in July, and not paying at all in August, then blocking my phone number. I evi...
Looking to get funding for our first deal.We've heard about Lima Capitol at the beginning of podcast #167. What we want to do is get the pre-approval out of the way first so we can look at and make an offer on a renta...
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Hello, this is my first time posting on here I am in Canada and have followed this site for years. I have slowly been getting my legs under me and now I have an interesting opportunity in front of me. I know someone w...
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If you were to pick up a small building with a few residential units and a nice sized commercial store front on the first floor how would you handle getting that store front ready to rent? What is the most common prac...
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I am considering partnering with a contractor on a rehab and need some ideas on how to protect my investment in the property. The contractor used a hard money loan to acquire the property and would like for me to ...