Michael Willis
Apple to Oranges - Office Building vs Mobile Home Park
1) Local Office Building (option 1)Hi All, so for the past few months I have been sharing my finds for a 1031 exchange in the NYC metro area. I have found a solid deal on a 16.5k sq. ft occupied office building for 2...
Cliff T.
Using Solo 401k to do hard money / private lending
Hi all,I am hoping to get into the world of hard money / private lending using my Solo 401k and had a few questions.1. I have approx. $120k in my Solo 401k but the deal that I am planning to fund needs about $180k. Is...
TaRa Mehta
Hesitant to allow pets, but want to!
Can ya'll share your "lessons learnt" about allowing pets in your rental property ? We have only had one rental property so far and have always had a "No Pet Policy". Now I'm getting ready to market my second one and ...
Bryan Hancock
Subject-To Purchases To Avoid “The Wall†When Growing Your Buy-And-Hold Portfolio
There have been several threads recently about trying to grow portfolios past 4, 10, or X properties. It seems everyone has unique problems based on their credit, income, liquidity, leverage ratios, type of income, e...
Jeremy Seely
Staggered Rent Due Dates
I recently inherited some multifamily property and the longtime property manager has leases set up with many different due dates. About half are due on the 1st, some on the 15th, some in the 20s, etc. The main reasoni...
Account Closed
Real Estate Fraud and Deceit
My family was in a tenant in common situation at the cousins level now. We had a cousin sell his 1/8 interest to a firm that is a licensed real estate brokerage firm but also bills itself as a developer.The local boa...
Mindy Jensen
What do you want to read about on the BiggerPockets Blog?
Do you read the BiggerPockets Blog? Do you even know that we HAVE a blog? We want to create quality content that goes in-depth on the topics YOU want to learn about. Tell us what matters most to you, what you want to ...
John Perry
Bid On House Subject to 1st mortgage... Advice Needed (Ohio)
I bid on what turned out to be a a 2nd mortgage in Ohio. The house is worth around $300k. I paid 258K at auction. Looking through the court records I can see that the 2nd mortgage was awarded ~100k. There are around ~...
Ashton Astillero
Would you cut corners here?
This is going to be a wall of text, but I think it's necessary to lay down proper context.Not so recently, I took a job for the rehab of a house. I had to wait a little bit since I don't want to put anybody in the hot...
Jal Singh
Rental Property - Provide Appliances?
I have closed on my first SFR and I am prepping it now for city inspection and then the hunt for my first tenant begins. I have a question for my fellow investors in the metro Detroit area... of course I welcome a...