Jeff Exline
Experience with Purchasing Rental Properties within Military dominant Locations
Was interested in targeting locations for long-term rentals within the military community. Has anyone had much success with this? Without much research, it sounds promising - stable source of income, leasing to promi...
Dave Mosher
Hartford Apartment Buildings, someone is making money?
Looking down the road, I can see a path for me towards buying apartment buildings. I hear everyone saying to stay away from lower income areas because of the headaches. However, I see 6 and 12 unit apartment buildi...
Vince Greenland
Electronic signatures and real estate agreements
I am considering going paperless, which will offer so many advantages to me. However, in order to do it, leases and electronic sigatures is essential. I would like to get tenants to sign my lease on a tablet device ...
Jonathan Bowen
Can a business entity legally lease and sell its own real estate?
I've been selling real estate for a long time but I've never thought about this issue before... Can a business entity legally lease and sell its own real estate holdings? Think about it for a minute... Individual home...
Edward Casano
Calculating Property Tax in NYC
Hi All,I recently began my search for a multi-family property to buy and hold in NYC and have been getting caught up in the tax calculations. I worked with a couple different lenders and they didn't completely underst...
Bryan Hancock
New FICO Credit Score Model For 2010
So I guess there is a new credit score model that rolled out:
New Credit Scores
Does anyone know what banks are considering "A" paper under the new scoring? I checked mine tonight (923, 910, 923) and have no idea w...
Tyler Smiarowski
Landlords who give "Landlords" a bad name.
Thought it would be interesting to know if other landlords have any stories in their area that involve landlords getting in big trouble. Here in Cedar Rapids Bob Miell was at one point the largest private landlord in ...
Matthew J. T.
Motivated Sellers + Little to No Equity?
If you find a MOTIVATED SELLER, that wants to sell the house because of there MORTGAGE is too high, they really want to sell the house, but has very little equity. Does this mean the house is not a deal automatically?...
Tom Lipps
Tenant clipped car exiting garage with low-hanging door.
Hi BP!I'm about to close on my first rental property this Friday and am very excited! I'm learning A LOT as I go, and BP's community has been amazing in helping me confidently get through to closing.The property I'm g...
Mary Cruz
Tenant finally evicted but still comes onto property
I finally got my tenant evicted, but found out this morning that she is still coming onto the property and parks onto my driveway to drop off her kids and pick them up from the school. She allows the kids to stay in f...