Jacob G.
Best Story of a Tenant Taking themselves Out of Consideration.
I had a prospective tenant call me the other day, who seemed very excited about a house I have for rent. In the process of telling me she was interested she told me she was taking her current land lord to court becau...
GL L.
Texas Agent Telling me I have to put up $200 for option to get out of bad inspection?
According to my agent if I want the option to get out of my buy contract if inspection report bad, then I would need to pay $200 or more. Otherwise I would lose my ernest money . She says it is not mandatory...
Ray Jhala
To permit or not to permit!
Hey Everyone! I purchased my first rental, a duplex, in January of this year. After the tenants left last month I started the rehab process to bring the units up to speed and increase rents to market rates.
The sco...
Isabella White
Hello World! I am new to BP & RE investing. Any pearls of wisdom?
Like the title says, I have recently discovered Bigger Pockets and am so excited to have found a community/forum of likeminded investors!I have been “flirting” with the idea of Multifamily RE investing for 6 months no...
Chris Mason
Wholsalers etc: Why not just go get your RE license?
General question.I frequently read posts wherein a wholesaler, birddog, or similar, talks about finding buyers, finding sellers, connecting them, and this sort of thing. And the questions are invariably about what con...
Vlad B.
Bad Landlord Year how to Stop the Pain
Hi BP Community,I have 2, 4 units total Duplexes that I purchased in the last 2 years that were money makers last year. Everything was going well before 2022 hit and tenant turnover happened. Unit 1 turn: renter went ...
Roy Assaf
Yellow letters direct mail in Brooklyn, NY - Not even one phone call after our 3rd touch, Why?
BP marketing experts, I have a question:We started our direct mail (yellow letters) a few months ago in a hot area in Brooklyn, NY.We bought an absentee owner list from listsource and we decided to send out 400 letter...
Jimmy O'Connor
Struggles with the Stigma Against Wholesalers
Hey BP Community!I work in Philadelphia and Delaware County as a Licensed agent that specializes in wholesale for REI opportunities. As I have been reaching out to potential investors and doing the cold call grind (li...
Account Closed
Portland wants to force me to accept violent crime felons.
So this is happening here: http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2018/05/08/portland...As a landlord who does her own repairs, this is terrifying to me. I'm imagining crawling under a sink to fix a leak, locked in a house ...
Jason Ling
Machine learning and Real Estate Investing
Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...