Maritza McKinney
Inherited tenant is a smoker
We are inheriting a tent at who smokes in their unit. And it reeks of smoke. She is a great tent at and has lived there for 10 years. How do you handle the smoke damage and to the unit when/if she moves out? Do we cha...
Chris Hijazin
Newbie looking for some advice in Baltimore, MD
Hey BP Fam!
My name is Chris. I am planning to move into the Baltimore area ASAP (Pending employment) and am looking to pull the trigger into Real Estate investing. I think my best best is to secure an FHA or FHA 203...
Nicole Heasley Beitenman
I got a new job! Time to make some decisions about my finances
Hi BP! I'm leaving the REIT where I did accounting and short-term leasing for retail shopping centers and heading to a property management software company where I'll be doing sales. Wages are likely to be 60% salary,...
Aaron Pope
New investor looking to make start investing in 3 months
My name is Aaron Pope. I'm in Indianapolis, IN and I'm just now starting the learning phase of real estate investing. I'm looking to build cash flow through rental properties for now. I'll look to expand in the future...
Melanie Hartmann
I Had to Fire the Contractor
Our first flip of 2020 was purchased in the middle of December 2019. Here we are nearing the end of January and the property looks more or less the same. I naively trusted a contractor I had built a relationship with ...
Ian Rowland
Current real estate market
What does everyone think about the housing market right now? Would it make more sense to wait it out before buying anything to see how the housing prices changes?
Devin Woods
Structuring Seller Financing
Hello All,I have a generic question regarding seller financing and how to actually put the deal together. I have a property I am looking at and I believe the seller may be open to this, and I feel we would both benef...
Joe Gravelle
how to find the best tenants
So I'm closing on my fist investment property later this month. With the excitement of getting my first place comes the responsibility of finding good tenants. I'm curious what the BP community thinks about two questi...
Braden Hobbs
Military tenant being deployed
Hi all,
I have a tenant being deployed a few months after their lease ends June. They would like to go month to month until they are deployed. My issue is it's a SFH rental and the lease ends in the summer when the r...
Isis Franco
Should I pay for an inspection or only the contractor?
Hello, I am fairly new to the BP world. Here is my situation. Please let me know what you suggest.
For the first time we are finally in escrow with our first property in Tampa Florida. The property is rented out for ...