Sean Tatarian
Investing - Starting with Primary Residence purchase - thoughts?
Long time BP follower, first post! Finally getting started with the process of my first investment.Background:-Near $100K saved up-Have a great full time job I will keep-Plan is to own multiple rental properties in n...
James Smyth
Making an offer on a BRRRR
I'm looking to buy a BRRRR property using owner financing and renting it out after the first year.I ran the financials on the deal and think I can make it work if I get the right purchase price.The property is a singl...
Lauren N Sellers
Seeking Direction: Am I Blowing an Incredible Opportunity?
The first time I jumped into real estate was 2008 just in time for the crash. I had no capital and no experience. You can imagine how that ended...Over the next few years I stepped back from real estate and built an i...
Kosh Vokter
Rent collection - safe collection methods
For making rent payment, tenant prefers to use Paypal with a business transfer (and not a person to person) option and Paypal charges a fee for that. To avoid that I suggested that they can make rent payments through ...
Brandon P.
evicting tenants with 2 names on lease
Both the boyfriend and girlfriend have their name on the lease(which i see was a mistake). They got into a fight, no longer get along, and are now for the first time late on rent. Only one of them is working, and cla...
Miguel Del Mazo
My thoughts (FWIW) on MTR Arbitrage
MTR arbitrage is a useful tool to have in your tool chest, and like all tools, it has its uses along with its positives and negatives.
MTR: Medium-term rental (usually between 1-12 months)
Arbitrage: renting from an...
Steve Jeffries
Clear 401K for acquisitions?
I have a question I am sure will get mixed answers. We have had a single rental for about 11 years now, and have recently decided to give the rental business a serious effort. We bought our second rental in May and re...
Daniel Madhavapallil
House Hacking and Tax Strategies
Hi! My family and I are about to move in to a house hack! It is a 4-Unit property where we are living in one unit and renting out the other three. We were able to get into it with a 5% down primary residence loan. I’v...
Chris Breezy
Is a 457 or 401k beneficial to me
I’m 26 and I’m all about personal finance and investing. I have a good amount of money that invest in stocks and I also max out my Roth ira every year. My job provides a pension and annuity for retirement so this woul...
Julie Marquez
Military Tenant Going on Deployment
So I understand that a tenant has the right to break a lease with military orders, but our rental agreements are M2M with this move-in fee caveat.For example: Rent $1650. Refundable deposit $825. Non Refundable Move I...