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Hi all, Just joined the BP community and wanted to introduce myself. I am currently a graduate student in the Chicagoland area and I am aiming to purchase my 1st rental property (ideally a house-hack in a 3+ unit prop...
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My parents recently built a new home and moved out of the house I grew up in throughout my childhood. They listed for-sale-by-owner for about six months with a lot of interest and went under contract twice, but the bu...
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My city is doing a long overdue revaluation and fearmongers are saying crap like "they'll take your million dollar house and sell it for the tax bill". My understanding was if your tax lien were sold at auction, if yo...
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Hello guys,I am talking to a son of the property's owner. The father has passed away and he left the house to his son according to his will. The son have not change the name of the owner of the house to his name becau...
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I have two people who responded to my YL campaign. So I have two questions.
1) One owner said that he had filed bankruptcy and the bank wasn't willing to work with him on the house. Can you still sell your ho...
Hi all - hoping you can help! My husband and I bought an occupied foreclosure in Long Island, NY with the intention of flipping it. It is occupied by an elderly woman. Our plan was to do repairs on the outside of the ...
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Closing soon on my first off Market deal.Wondering from the community with more experience in off Market deals... Your most important tactic you follow when to you find a deal and want to secure it?
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Hi folks - long time reader here.My wife and I are scoping out a SF property in Somerville. It has the bones and sq ft to be converted into a multifamily though we have a limited understanding of the MF conversion pro...
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Hello! My name is Daniel and I love bigger pockets and have been following the podcasts sporadically for the past few years. But besides that, I'm brand new to real estate!I plan on moving to the Torrance, CA area an...
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Hi,
I was originally trying to buy a two-family in a good school district to househack, but the market is too hot now that I do not feel like overpaying those move-in condition properties. Right now I'm exploring th...