Shopitha Kumar
Is Buying Duplex in Bay Area a Good Deal if we are living in it
Hi , I am looking at Duplex in Bay area . Idea is to live in one and rent out the other. So this will be our primary home for next 3-4 year. I have currently found a property that is $1.5M . The Rent on the second uni...
Reginald A. Shelby II
Is there a such thing as TOO conservative?
Is there a such thing as TOO conservative when analyzing properties?
Austin Kinchen
Section 8 Tenant - Rent Difference
I have an existing tenant (inherited) that utilizes the Section 8 program, and I have had a great experience to date with the program/tenant/housing authority. I currently have a vacant 3 bedroom house I am looking to...
Tomas Satas
What App do your tenants use to pay rent?
So I wanted to set up Zelle for our LLC but have noticed in the past that I cannot make transfers to other peoples LLC Zelle accounts if I have a debit card linked to my Zelle.I am assuming that tenants will most like...
Brendan Miller
4-Plex Expenses Underwriting %'s
What does everyone use for underwriting deals on small multifamily properties (2-4 units). Right now, I've been using the below as standard %s, but I often see realtors provide financials with much lower %s. I'm curio...
Evan Zeigler
House hacking property with ADU
My fiancée has no interest in house hacking because of the obvious fact of living near your tenants. I think I might be able to convince her if our first property has an ADU, so it’s like we’re neighbors and not shari...
Sandy Keller
Part Time Property Manger?
I am learning about turbo tenant and feel fairly confident I could manage most things using it (as long as tenants were able and willing to cooperate with using a computer/app) However I'd still like a property manag...
Simon Stahl
Is it legal to add a rent increase clause to the lease agreement?
I know Oakland has some seriously tough tenant laws. As far as I know the max rent increase at the moment is around 1% per year, which is a joke. I wonder though if it is legal to add potential future rent increases i...
Joshua A. Lenninger
Issue with 50% rule (guideline)
How's it going everyone?
I have been doing some research and I've known about this 50% rule for a little while but never quite understood when applied to property. Every multi family property I use this screening meth...
DJ Espiritu
New guy in Tacoma, WA
Hi everyone. I’ve been on and off studying the real estate game for about a year and a half now and decided it’s time to take some steps. I currently make about 40k right now and have about 13k saved up myself. Lookin...