Hello All,I just received applications for our first tenants ever. They have passed all of our screens (criminal, credit, etc) and in general, I feel good about it. But there are some quirks:• It is 4 people total. A ...

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I’m currently living in Orange County, CA and would like to work with a real estate CPA to do my taxes and optimize/evaluate my tax returns from previous year.

I’ve always done taxes by myself using TurboTax in...

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I am looking for some insight about investing in the hood aka rougher part of town, where properties are much less inexpensive - it would be nice to help contribute to these rough areas by making them l...

Headline says it: The recent emphasis on creating direct-booking sites for your STRs and MTRs is overrated. Prove me wrong.Work/money not offset by savingsThe amount of work -- and money -- to build a site and do prop...

So I have been listening to several podcasts, which are all awesome and super-informative. Can't think of a higher yield source. (See www.biggerpockets.com/show75 specifically) and there seems to be a mistrust or no i...

For buy and hold investors out there, how do you guys think about appreciation and how do you factor it in to your buying and selling decisions, if at all? What key factors do you use to measure the potential for appr...

So I recently was sent 2 possible duplexes to purchase from an agent I trust. I ran the numbers using the basis Brandon lined out, and the properties comes out to a negative monthly cash flow by about $175 per propert...

Hello fellow investors!  I began a post a few months ago in regards to a new construction project I will be starting soon and after all the great input I thought it would be nice to start a journal in order to help ne...

Hi all,A little background - (skip to the tldr at the bottom if you get bored) I'm mainly a buy and hold index fund investor. While I'm certainly no finance major, everything I've read about investing has led me to ke...

Wow, it's getting to where it's VRBO is the one making all of the money.  2 years ago, the service fee was under 10 percent.  If you add in the owner's portion, VRBO is carving off 30 percent or more per reservation. ...