Alex Lebhar
Tax Questions for House Hack
Hi everyone,I am new to the real estate investment game and recently bought my first home. I am renting out one of the rooms as a house hack and had a few tax questions as I work to keep records:1. How does depreciati...
Alyssa Healey
Trouble finding a duplex... Build one instead?
I am a pretty new investor, I have two properties in Denver currently. My market is very expensive, and I have been struggling to find a duplex that makes sense... I found an off market property that I could buy and i...
Miki M.
Commercial Real Estate Investing : need your help, BP!
Dear BP,This site offers a LOT of useful info (and great calculators) helping newbies to start investing into residential real estate: rental SFRs, multiplexes, condos... That is great, and I did it for some time. Wor...
Bienes Raices
Making offer when you can't get inside house?
(if for one reason or another you can't get in--lock broken, etc)
I was wondering if people here ever do this based on just looking in the windows, if it looks okay?
Eric O'Brian
How much commission should I ask for providing leads to Property Management Company?
My mentor / business partner who is showing me the ropes in RE is starting his own property management business after being in the real estate game for 13 years.
He is offering me a job in said property manag...
Logan White
I have 2 rentals free and clear, what's my next move?
Three years ago I received a free/clear house on 2 lots and some money from family in my home state (currently active duty USAF). I immediately repaired anything wrong, updated the house and rented it. With the remain...
Brendan Reilly
Options of 100k and a good job
So I recently discovered that I will be inheriting a piece of farmland. Not all of it but a fraction and we are either going to buy one another out at a deal price (around 50k) or sell on the open market( hopefully ar...
Austin Wood
How do you skiptrace your Propstream list?
Propstream is great. But their skip tracing service isn't great. Can I export my excel file directly from Propstream to someone like batchskiptracing? Or do I need to actually fill in the excel templates that they pro...
Erin Elam
If you could go back what would you have had done before your first deal?
Hello BP,Before I get my first deal, what should already be in place? Should I already have a business name/entity established? Or is it the same difference to buy in my name since I will be assigning the contract any...
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My soon to be First close - what you think
hi all
I think I have found a good prperty investment and would like to know your opinion.
listed at 310000
taxes for 06: 3300
my loan: 80/20 6.9%/9.9% (eliminates PMI)
what other numbers are necessary are a determ...