Samantha Miller
Screening tenant-roommates for first house hack
Hey Bigger Pockets Community!
I am working towards settlement on my first home purchase! Settlement is set for early November. My plan with the purchase (a 4 bed single family in Philadelphia) is to rent out 3 of the...
Davey Davanoski
Getting a property management firm or doing it yourself?
When you buy a multi family building for first time or when your decide to grow your portfolio with second, third and so on multi family building. How do you do property management? Do you do yourself, and if you do h...
Dan Shelhamer
Takeaways from meeting with my accountant
The other day I met with my accountant to do some year-end planning, especially since this is my 1st year owning investment properties. A few things that I took away from this meeting are listed below, and I was just...
Jason Timmerman
Why so much action in Ghetto, NJ?
There are a lot of properties listed in the marketplace in the horribly ghetto cities of New Jersey like Newark, Trenton, Elizabeth, Paterson, etc. Is there a market there? Are people actually looking to move into th...
Glenn Mayo
Investing out of area/state
So, I have the disadvantage of living in one of, if not the, hottest real estate markets in the country, here in DFW Texas. There are a lot of pros and cons to it, but I keep running across people who don't even live...
Ethan G Stine
New Young Investor Looking To Invest Out Of State - ADVICE PLEASE
Hello,Long time lurker, first time poster here on BiggerPockets. I have been following the site and listening to the podcasts religiously for about a year now. I currently have one investment property in California, w...
Jim Banville
Buying metro tampa rental condo/house for 5 yrs make sense?
Ok. I'm new here and have never bought/owned an investment property. We live in Georgia. We will retire in about 5 years. We'd like to retire to west/central florida in a community like Dunedin. The price of housing a...
Mark Manship
Hold out for Sale or Transition to Renting
I'll try to keep this as specific as possible as to prevent the "...it depends" responses. I understand this is a lengthy post, but it is all in the interest of garnering the most pointed advice.BLUF: Wife and I own a...
Noah Bacon
What's your biggest concern about buying real estate in today's market?
Let's say you find the perfect property for your portfolio TODAY, what are you most worried about? Are you worried about current home values and where they are headed?Are you concerned that rent prices will not increa...
Peter Morgan
How to politely turn down section 8
HelloI am getting inquiries from section 8 tenantsHow can I politely turn down? I don’t even have any permissions to rent to section8 tenants.Appreciate your inputs Thanks