Mitch Davidson
Tax write-offs and their impact on DTI
Hi friend,
As you may or may not have heard, today's real estate expenses and write-offs may have a severe negative impact on your ability to qualify for Conventional financing tomorrow. And compared to other financi...
Patricia C.
Trying to purchase multiple properties
HelloI currently own 2 properties. One is currently rented in Greenwich CT, the other I just purchased in Norwalk CT and in the middle of renovations before I rent it out.I would like to purchase a 3rd home by the end...
Alfie Park
Houston exurbs as attractive cash flow play?
Hi,I am considering investing in my first rental buy-and-hold property here in Houston. I live in the Houston suburbs so naturally started looking here first. With the market recovery, it seems most of the properties ...
Catie Fihn
How Do I Split These Utilities?!
Hello! We just bought a duplex, which has separate meters for electricity. That's easy enough for the tenants to put their bills in their own names. But the gas and water need to stay in our name as landlords (per ...
Jon S.
Liability Exposure vs Tax Exposure, they seem to be at odds.
Based on responses on BiggerPockets, I've realized that addressing these two concerns is not necessarily complimentary, one can cause problems with the other. In Brandon Hall's article on tax planning "Higher Earner V...
Ben Staples
Turning Consumption Goods into Capital Goods
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/08/02/uber-reduces-capital-concentration-and-increases-the-number-of-capitalists/I thought this article was an interesting one and wanted to share. Tim Worstall writes abo...
Nolan O.
Market Phases: Is Vacancy Rate a Leading or Trailing Indicator
A recent forum post (Dollar-Cost Averaging Applied to Rental Property Acquisition) has me thinking about market phases: Recovery, Expansion, Hypersupply and Recession. (Boring and academic, I know. Bear with me.) Many...
Eduardo Bravo
Bringing up rents to market value portland
Hi biggerpocket friends!After spending a year researching and learning about real state I finally pulled the trigger and need help trying to figure out what to do with a property that I just got into contract in the p...
Brenton Tigner Jr
Update!!....As a newbie shadowing a property manager
Update: I earlier posted about being a newbie and the opportunity to shadow a property manager of a medium size apartment complex...Just recently I was allowed to study the 13 month trend report and other financials. ...
Stephen Kunen
Suggestions for BRRRR
Hi all, we have closed on a 4 unit in January this year in Allentown PA. So far we have done some cosmetic repairs, and are hoping to renovate the unit in the worst shape once the tenants move out this month or next m...