I could really use some cumulative life experience advice this evening! I just used the MySmartMove site for tenant screening and was greeted with a tenant score of "conditional" with a FICO of 468. I have had bo...

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Over the past six years, I’ve built a portfolio of 70+ properties, primarily single-family rentals. My wife and I are now at a stage in life where we’re looking to move from a condo rental in the city to...

Hello, all!The city of Independence, Missouri (a large suburb on the east side of Kansas City) is proposing mandatory inspections for rental properties.  The landlord would be required to hire an inspector, at the lan...

My question is when someone goes into a loan forbearance, why does the loan company put a suspension on payments?

My neighbor at one of my properties in PA missed 3 mortgage payments. Her mortgage company gave her a...

I'm looking for a more efficient method of searching for motivated sellers of distressed properties. Driving for dollars works but it seems there are better ways to find them.

I advertised an apartment early in the month for a March 1 move-in and got a number of bites. However, I put in some engineered hardwood in the apartment and it wasn't show ready until mid-month and raised the ren...

I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...

Hi,I am considering investing on a multi-family syndication with Viking Capital. Looks like they have done around 25 syndications worth $800M in property value. Founders are Vikram Raya and Ravi Gupta. If you have had...

Hello! My fiance' and I are new to biggerpockets and investing in general. Primarily, I work in business intelligence and my fiance' works in affiliate marketing. I've been following the webinars that Brandon offers f...

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My name is Brenda and I'm new to real estate investing and I'm looking forward to learning as much as possible. The only real estate experience I have is an REIT index fund I purchased a few months ...