Hello, I am a newbie! I am in Ohio and renting out my first property through a property management company. What info about the renter am I entitled to receive other than a copy of the lease agreement. For example nam...

I found a 15 unit (5x 2bed, 10x 1bed) house on the west side of Cleveland, vacant needs complete rehab, good outside (brick), boarded-up. The seller says: "you pay nothing for this house if you assume the back taxes ...

My name is Dustin Burns and I am a 28 year old Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from Maryland. I was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD my entire childhood until I purchased my primary residence (townhouse) in ...

Hello everyone, I've been listening and learning from the podcast, forums, and website for the last year. Big thanks to Joshua Dorkin for establishing this amazing resource!  Bigger Pockets has helped me stay sane ove...

I am new to real estate and I want to market to motivated sellers so I called the county clerks office and asked them to email me a list of tax delinquents names/addresses. They emailed me 130 page document of names...

Hello Bigger Pockets,New investor here and couldn’t be more excited. I have been listening to the real estate podcast for quite a some time, while working my W2 as a night auditor. In almost every podcast they talk ab...

Hello,I'm a newbie investor from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. I'd like to know more about the proper way of investing in real estate and I'm open to new ideas. I had bought and sold 4 properties (one in the US) makin...

What app do you like to use for tracking your time? I started using "Atto" a few days ago for 2023 material participation logging and I like that it has a big red/green start/stop button. What I don't like is that the...

I was reading about and researching this over and over again, books, IRS pubs, here, elsewhere. I cannot get a conclusive answer even in forums with seasoned CPAs debating this topic.

That much is clear:
- If you hav...

Was talking to a lender friend earlier who said Zillow Zestimates aren't trustworthy at all as they don't factor in REO sales. So aside from performing an actual appraisal or BPO, what are some good rules of thumb for...