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Greetings!
Like many BPers, I own a few rental units (2 4-unit buildings) and manage them myself. I run my business professionally, I take good care of my properties and like to think I treat my tenants well. I belie...
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Hi, My husband and I are looking to start building a real estate rental portfolio to provide additional income for retirement. Our plan is to purchase either single family homes and/or multifamily properties, hold ...
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This has been an ongoing issue since the beginning and I'm learning the hard way to screen tenants properly. A family began to rent our newly built house in June and after about a month, the wife had been diagnosed wi...
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OK, so you've done all your screening, the tenants look good. No bad reviews from previous landlords.Tenant drives up in a nice new clean car and has good appearance. They move in, then comes the first visit 6 mont...
I love data, I really, really love my data. Wow, there is a lot of information here. I'm just getting started but seriously, every minute of this process I have to forgive myself for not starting sooner, what an IDIOT...
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I keep on hearing from investors that "I'm waiting for interest rates to go down" or I hear "I need rates to go down for the numbers to make sense". Maybe these investors are saying this because they just got into inv...
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Athe end of the year, I'm quitting my job and booking a 1-way ticket overseas. I'm going to try to freelance and make some money while traveling to make this as sustainable as possible for a long period of time (proba...
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Hey Alaska rental owners, I'm just curious how you are doing with on time rent payments? Are people paying on time? Late? How are vacancies doing? Any modifications to leases?I dumped my rental in ER middle of last ye...
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Who is buying and selling with owner/seller financing? How do you do it with the Dodd Frank act? I still don't quite understand that law.
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Dear BP-community,I just finished David Greene's book "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing: How to Buy, Rehab, and Manage Out-of-State Rental Properties". Before I had read the book, I was convinced that I wouldn't be...