Jesse Bull
Upstate New York Investment Property Turnaround
I bought a house in Woodstock, NY about 5 years ago. It was always meant to be a weekend home whose costs I could partly cover through AirBnB...I wasn't as thoughtful or concerned about the annual loss in the early y...
David L.
Is it legal to put a dividing wall(s) in a SFH to rent out a portion of it?
If I have a house that's too big for me and I want to househack and rent it out to a tenant but want privacy and no shared space, is it legal to put up a dividing wall and possibly another external door so the house i...
Curtis H.
Got the Deed Sub2, Now what?
Hello all, I already have another post about this deal, so I won't get into the specifics. Basically I have the deed and it's closed. Sellers will be out in 3 days and I just want to make sure I get my checklist right...
Fred Shandler
Did anyone steal your copper piping today??
I attended a REIA meeting in the area I'm looking to invest in and one landlord stated "any vacant house in this area will have it's copper piping stolen. Groups mark their territory by leaving a brick in the middle ...
Mike J.
Lessons Learned From My $30,000 Mistake
Spring of 2010.We (my father and I) purchased a home in the Inland Empire of Southern California. It was a brand new 3Bed 2Ba SFH that was listed at an unbelievably low price. A little backstory on this property; this...
Alex Merkel
2 yr. College Investment or Jump into Real Estate?
I am in a bit of a pickle; I am deciding how to achieve my goal of owning buy and hold real estate. My current job doesn't bring in a lot of money and I am trying to figure out if I should just go to college and get a...
Elenis Camargo
To those inheriting tenants, don't make this rookie mistake!
Hi BP! I wanted to share my rookie mistake. We have purchased two SFH with inherited tenants. The first was in February and the second this past month. While we were closing on the second rental, we did a new lease fo...
Ross Bernard
Trust No One (when it comes to contractors...)
I found an HVAC tech online who had 64/64 five-star reviews on Google Maps. There was nothing but praise for him, so I gave him a shot. He diagnosed my problem as a faulty control board. He quoted me $700 for the boar...
Candace Postell
WWYD if you ran out of $$$ during the flip!
Hi B/P family,So what if you were about 95% complete on a flip and you needed about 4k to complete, what would you do besides private money? Its a bit of a dilemma because you've made it this far and you dont want to ...
Leland S.
Would you sell fsbo to cover flip losses?
I'm. Probably looking at a loss on my first flip considering realtor fees. If there were no realtor fees, walla, I'm profitable. Is that a reason to just do fsbo? Seems really sucks to hand over all your profit and gi...