I am currently doing a seller finance with my parents. I bought their house as my primary residence. In my current market I believe I got 40k in equity off the top. I am looking into doing a HELOC to purchase an incom...

What are some of the clauses you use for your residential leases? I am working in a new rental and plan to include a clause for pests. We will only cover one extermination and the tenant is responsible for any others ...

Hello all,Brand new to bigger pockets here.  I am a part time real estate agent.  My full time job has a non traditional schedule and I have several days a week off which allows me enough time to be an effective agent...

Hi Everyone - This is a beginner question, but that's where I'm at.  I recently purchased a single family home in the PNW, minor cleanup and I developed immediate equity, and have it rented with decent cash flow.  I p...

Hi - Just wanted to stop in and say HI.

I am a custom home builder getting into the rehabbing biz in my spare time :wink: . I know quite a bit about construction and want to try my hand at REI and rehabbing. :wowie...

We have a tenant that was given a verbal agreement from the previous landlord that a dog was permissible on the premises only until it passed away.  Tenant claimed they were depressed without the dog even though there...

Hello, Just started out listening to Bigger Pockets podcasts and looking into real estate investing. My wife and I are in our mid twenties in a suburb of Seattle making a combined 90,000 dollars and we have no debt. T...

This is my first post/question so I hope you all on BP can give me some help with your opinions!My husband and I recently purchased a single family rental home that we are fixing up a little prior to renting.  The hom...

If I know I'm going to have capital gains , would it be best to spend the money that's going towards tax on the gain or spend the money on capital improvements to bring up the cost basis?

This graph shows the real estate price adjusted by gold, from 1889 to 2021. As we are seeing a record increase in housing prices this year, the gold adjusted housing price actually is very low, at a historically low l...