What's your most successful apartment deal?
How much money did you make?
What are the problems you've encountered?
What are the lessons you've learned?
Here's mine:
The Deal
The apartment community is called Wyo...
I'm reading Dave Van Horn's articleMaybe You Shouldn’t Start an Entity. Consider 4 Alternative Asset Protection Strategies Instead.And it got me curious. Almost everyone suggest getting an umbrella policy since it's r...
I sometimes have to give tenants, what I call an "attitude adjustment".Below is an email that I sent to a tenant. In her email, she talked about invoicing me for when she had to talk to the utility company. I sent t...
What single piece of advice would you give to a newbie to share the hind sight you've no doubt experienced by this point. Knowing what you know now, what would you have done?
While investing in the past 2 years, I have been threatened, I’ve caught mice with my hands, called the police on tenants, done cash for keys and many more interesting things. All this has taught me that I don’t want ...
I am about to close on my first duplex and will be living on one side (top) while renting out the other (bottom).Is there any reason to put the duplex in an LLC?Just have the rent made out to me and have a new checkin...
Hi All, New member here. I have came across BP when googling about tenant eviction, will need your advice regarding eviction in Philadelphia. In short, I own a property since 2005 and have been using a real estate ma...
How much do you pay for drywall guys to repair a wall or ceiling?
I got an estimate of nearly $2000 for part of 1 room. Absurdity.
That's when there's less than $50-75 in actual supplies (drywall, tape, mud, paint...
I am about to close on my first fourplex this Friday through an owner-occupied FHA loan. The property fits my investment requirements at market rental rates. Unfortunately, the previous owner has kept the rents for th...
Good Morning BP community,My name is Mike and this marks my first post on the forums after being an active podcast listener and forum reader. Here is some background info and then I'll get straight to the point:I am 2...