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How Did You Secure Your First Rental?
Aloha BP family,
I was curious if people could share on how they secured their first rental to manage? What were some strategies you used to market your services? How does your services differ from "the other...
Jean-Pierre Lepoureau
Owner Financing Contracts Gone Wrong
Folks,Just a question has anyone ever experience a situation where you have owner financing and you have paid the entire term to find out that the owner is deceased? So you pay into a fix bank account for 20 years an...
Adrian Valdez
Building Credit score from scratch what do you guys recommend?
Hello Bigger Pockets community. So I am 20 years old and I have a part time job. I am currently writing out a plan to present to potential partners in my area so that I can get the ball rolling on investing but...I wa...
Dan Walker
Syndication Structuring Options - how to finance a deal?
I'm 26 years old and just beginning to explore real estate investing, with the target of making my first purchase mid-2018 and the intent of getting into a multi-family property while taking investments from family/fr...
Brad Seidel
1099 for 5 year cant get financing
My brother in law is trying to find a way into his first home that he wants to live in and cash flow. However his situation is a tad un-ortodox.
Positives:
Has 83k savedThis will be his first homeMakes around 110k p...
Thomas Higgins
The Evolution of Real Estate Investing
As fund managers, it's important to have a historical perspective when it comes to investment strategies and where we allocate our money. Real estate investing has been a popular way to build wealth for centuries, wit...
Jose Cabanero
Red Flag(s)?
Hi everyone, I have a prospective tenant looking to rent one of my larger units (3bd/2ba 1386 sqft for $3500/mo) in Connecticut. I'm asking for the usual...-Background check-Credit Report-References-Proof of incomeWha...
Sarah Jukes
Non 3rd party tenant background check!?
This is our first rental. I asked the applicants to apply via RentSpree. They are saying they are not happy using a 3rd party system for the application and background check. Because of hacking!?They prefer paper appl...
Zachary Corum
Uber Driver Applicants
Does the rise of self employed workers driven by (no pun intended) companies like Uber, Lyft and other app driven service jobs pose more risk than a standard 1099 applicant? Sure some can make 55k a year but some mont...
Philip L.
Security Deposit Rules
I understand that the security deposit needs to be in a regulated financial institution account - I currently put them into my company's chase business savings account - is this good enough or are we required to open ...