Pal Sa
Lease renewal and rent increase by 5.5%
Bigger Pockets forum, Happy Thanksgiving to you all. My rental home is coming up for lease renewal. Our tenants would have stayed there for a year by then. They have been good. They pay rent on time. I am able to wor...
Humphrey Piccus
$1000000 through real estate - one thing doesn't make sense?
In Brandon's recent webinar, "How To Make One Million Through Real Estate Investing", Brandon says to take the after repair value and subtract 20% for the price you pay. He says it's worth 150,000 and buy it for 120,0...
Wynn Taylor
Buying Property at 20% discount
Some of the ebooks and tutuorials make it seem like getting a property at 20% discount is easy. I'm in the Boston area and there is an inventory shortage. It seems like getting a property at any discount is very hard ...
Chris Brackenbury
Long term capital gain avoidance without 1031?
Hi all,I am selling a ranch that was used as a rental held tenants in common and have very little basis since it was inherited long ago. I would like to reinvest all the proceeds (375k) into a local flip (owning secon...
Wayne Brooks
1031 Exchange question-condo conversion
@Bill Exeter @Steven Hamilton II, other experts....I think I know the answer, but want to verify. Apparently his current CPA thinks Yes to # 1).Owner has owned 5 plex for 30 years. He thinks he can convert to condos...
Jim Workman
How to export Buildium transactions to Excel
My property manager uses Buildium. I have asked for a CSV file of all transactions so I can easily import them into my bookkeeping. The best he has been able to do is to export a report in xls format. With some man...
Lissa Dear
Newbie from DFW, Texas
Hello,My name is DaLissa, and I am new to the real estate investing world (and Texas) currently working a 9 to 5 and renting an apartment while saving up to invest. I am 25 years old and originally from Alabama. I hav...
Tommy White
Opinions or actual experience with Purchase Option Agreements
I am half way into reading a book about Purchase Option agreements and would like to get some feedback from others about this REI approach. First let me say I thiink the idea is great and can be a win win for both par...
Alex Chin
Is a 2+ year old listing a red flag for you?
Hello BP,I'm looking at a couple of properties that meet a lot of the basic criteria that I want for my first potential investment and am starting to dig a little deeper and taking a harder look at them as possible re...
Ross Bernard
How to clear obstructed dryer duct
The house I just purchased has an obstructed dryer exhaust duct. It looks like there is debris both inside the house where the dryer connects and outside, on the roof, where it exits the house. I was thinking about ge...