Chris Dougherty
Move-out damage negotiations
After seven years of living here, I'm relocating. In the next few weeks, the landlord will hit me with what she feels is an appropriate amount for damage.
Assuming she tries to exceed my $1,950 deposit, here is my pl...
Bob Mazza
Security Deposit - Apartment is covered in grease!!!!
Looking to help from the BP community in figuring out how much of a security deposit I should hold back. I had tenants move out of a small studio apartment I have about 3 weeks ago. When I went to get the keys the apa...
Naima Farah
Knowledge is the first key to success!!!
Hello-My name is Naima Farah. I am 24 years old from the great State of Minnesota. Although my day time passion is helping people as Community Social Worker, I spend majority of my free time learning dreaming about be...
Holly Hollister
Atlanta – In Town or Way-Out Burbs?
We have 4 single family properties in town, and are in the process of looking to purchase our 5th property. However we are having trouble determining a strategy – we go back and forth between in-town lower income neig...
Pablo Martinez
(OHIO) Landlord wants to possibly illegally evict us.
We have been dealing with a nightmare landlord. She is extremely rude, constantly bothers us about coming in to just fiddle around multiple times a week(with proper notice), and has been trying like crazy to break our...
Trina P.
Seller financing in Orange County
My husband and I would love to get into a nicer home and we live in Orange County. We are sick of renting but, if you live around here you know how difficult it is to transition to buying. We really want to live in ar...
Shiloh Lundahl
Magnificent May in Arizona
Last month I wrote a post on the success that we had as a team in April and I called it Awesome April in Arizona! This month I wanted to detail some of the success that we had in May and call it Magnificent May in Ari...
Justin S.
Volume Rehabbers
Has anyone employed the volume rehabbing business model versus the standard 70% minus repairs business model?
The following pertains to properties under 100K:
In my market are...
Kenzie McIlvoy
What to do with almost $400k in equity?
My husband and I moved out of our SF home to make it a LTR last December to buy a lake house that needed some serious renovations. We planned on doing a year live-in flip which is falling right on schedule and wrappin...
Elizabeth Velez
Pay off debt or invest
We have about $170k in “bad” debt and our DTR is almost 50%. We are about to get $150k in cash from a business sale. Should we pay off debt or invest? I’m thinking pay off enough debt to get us to 30% DTR then invest ...