Adriana Diaz
Having trouble renting our investment property . Any feedback ?
Hello BP Community!My fiancé and I are new investors from California and investing in Fort Worth and Mansfield TX, however, it seems like our third income property seems to be taking us longer to rent. We purchased it...
Dale K Poyser
Best cities for RE Investing in Southern California
Hi BiggerPockets Community - pretty new to the site and forums. I am not sure if this has been posted already, if it has then my apologies in advance and please point me to that thread.I've been looking at different R...
James Canoy
Panic attacks are impacting my deals
I’ve been doing my research and reading and running numbers but I’m having an issue. I’ll submit offers on places which I think are good deals but within a day I start getting panic attacks and it ends up with me back...
Josh Polston
Tenant Refuses Stove - threatens to withold rent
[punchline at the end] I have a legacy tenant that has been living in the building since purchase (7 years ago) and they recently killed their gas range with only one of 4 burners working. When they notified me it wa...
Josh Jacobsen
Land Contracts.
Hi Friends, I'm a huge fan of the collective wisdom of BiggerPockets, and wanted to seek out a few ideas. There is an apartment building listed on the MLS that I've been fantasizing over for several weeks, and after m...
Dmitriy Fomichenko
Warning: Investing in Real Estate with a Self-Directed IRA
I just had a consultation with someone who has the following story. Classic example of a prohibited transaction. Sometimes I hear arguments against “checkbook control” that custodian is there to protect your IRA and p...
John Timmerman
What to pay for existing, cash-flowing properties?
I'm in Syracuse, NY and have a portfolio of properties I'd like to buy. Market value for all 3 properties (1 single, 1 duplex, and a 5-unit) is about $400k; net cash flow is about $60k a year, and seller is asking $82...
Grant Bublitz
First Duplex Should I LLC?
I am about to close on my first duplex and will be living on one side (top) while renting out the other (bottom).Is there any reason to put the duplex in an LLC?Just have the rent made out to me and have a new checkin...
Colby Miles
Properties that dont cash flow
I was browsing some properties in manhattan, ny and some in the surrounding area and noticed that most of these properties have a negative cash flow. So i dont understand why anyone would want to invest in these prope...
Aileen Soriano-Pisaturo
Newbie thinking of multi family or duplex out of state
Hello, I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad in my 30s and I thought I would be in real estate by 40. Fast forward 10 years later I have yet to invest in real estate. Lurked around BP site for the past year, have listened to ...