What's your advice for convincing your spouse to get interested in House Hacking?I love Scott Trench's Set for Life House Hacking mindset. Since 2009, I've owned a foreclosure-rehab turned house hack (5 BR 3 BA). I li...

A house I'm considering purchasing has a pest problem, and there are a lot of rodent droppings in the garage and attic. If I go through with purchasing it, I'm planning to hire a pest control company to get rid of the...

Hello fellow BP members. I currently live in Sarasota, FL area and have really had enough. 
I've been working a J.O.B. for long enough. I read RDPD a couple years ago and it definitely piqued my interest into REI. I'...

Hi all,I'm new at this landlord gig and I have a bit of a dilemma. A tenant asked if they could adopt a pet; when I replied with the information regarding deposit and pet rent, I never heard back until I followed up t...

How many properties does a person need to hold to justificy 750 hours? For example if you own a two family house and rent both units it would be hard to justify that you worked 750 hours to maintain this. IRS does not...

Hi Bigger Pockets Community!
I'm looking for a CPA specialized in Real Estate that can help me put together a plan on how to proceed with my real estate investing. 
Current Situation: I recently became a landlord (D...

Henry Ford said "Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."  When I first started in real estate all my goals were only financial.  A...

Hello! My wife and I are under contract on a second home, and we plan to rent our current house out.  We are excited to start this journey.  We plan on managing the rental ourselves. I am curious if we should start an...

Last year I converted an old 401k of mine into a Self Directed 401k and used that to buy and refurbish a few properties and now the monthly income is very nice and I sleep at night knowing I'm not overly reliant on th...

hi forum members!I would like a chance at gaining something extra for retirement which is in the next 10-15 years and had my eyes on the rental investment market. There are a few properties which have ok- not bad cas...