Hi All,This is my first ever post on Bigger Pockets and marks an exciting time for me. I am a commercial real estate analyst living and working in Santa Monica, CA. For about 6 months now I have been absorbing any edu...

Hello all!!
Proud moment as I have officially jumped in with an excellent splash. I closed today on my first investment property. So lets get to the details:
Started my adventure few years back when I started learni...

We are looking to purchase our first rental property, but are feeling overwhelmed about the amount of information and "analyses" people use to make their decisions. We have a few personal friends who own rentals and n...

Hello BP community. I’m at the point where I’m really want to take action on getting my first investment property.We have quite a bit of equity in our residential property so we were thinking about refinancing and usi...

Hi all,My wife and I live in the Raleigh/Durham area (for those who are familiar with the area, we are located by Southpoint Mall very close to the Research Triangle Park). We bought the home in 2015 for $212,000, and...

Air bnb hosts,I know it depends on many factors (location, rates, occupancy, etc) but I’m curious to hear how many of you have been profitable even when outsourcing all management costs? I am looking at the Chicago m...

I own a condo property in Dallas area that had 5-6 leak incidents from the unit above.  I, as the Landlord have responded all repair coordinate/cleaning within 24hrs after the report.  However, the tenant is now threa...

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I own a 5 story office building in Chicago and am having a difficult time leasing it out. I purchased the building about a year ago 100% vacant and proceeded to throw about $750,000 into remodeling mostly the c...

I own multifamily buildings with a lot of vacancies.  In order to get the vacant apartments back on the market they need extensive renovations.  I've done the calculations and it totally pays to renovate in towns such...

Sobering assessment from the annual report by the Taxpayer Advocate Service (a semi-independent branch of the IRS basically tasked with specific and systemic problem resolution):- 10-month refund delays on paper-filed...