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My name is Thomas Cocke, and I'm a 22 year old aspiring real estate investor. This fall, I'll graduate from the University of Texas at San Antonio, fluent in Spanish and conversant in French and Italian. An avid re...
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My wife, daughter, and I live in a suburb south of Denver, CO. We have a SFR residence and a SFR rental just down the street that I self-manage.My wife is from Ecuador and hates the dry climate in Colorado also the c...
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Hey everyone. I've been listening to the BP podcast for a while now and decided it's time to start getting myself educated a bit more here in the forums. I'm a retired Pastor who is now an online entrepreneur, running...
Venezuela outlawed ownership of more than 2 properties. The rest the government stole. Living in Illinois (currently) I am concerned about taxes. All my renters are working and on time with rents. The exodus out of Ch...
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We are under contract on a property in Texas we would like to use as a STR. The Deed Restrictions do not state that the property cannot be used as a Short Term Rental. The City it is in has no Restrictions on STR nor ...
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Since I was on a soapbox on a different thread here, I want to give my opinion on Arbitrage. Recently, Eric Moeller who is running an Airbnb success type business, has abandoned the Arbitrage model in favor of a c...
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I've been looking into getting a vacation rental up in the Bear Lake area? Anybody on here have a property up there that they rent out year round? Just curious how successful it has been, how often is it rented out an...
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Hello BiggerPockets community.Let me first introduce myself. My name is Carlos, im a 30 y/o architect from México, from the city of Mérida in the Yucatán Peninsula. Ive been passionate about real estate, investing, de...
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A couple of years ago I sold an LTR and 1031-exchanged it for an STR in the NC mountains. I have grown to really like the STR business! Now I want to sell a handful of LTRs and buy another STR, this time preferably in...