Carlos Diaz
Frustrated RE Investor in South Florida - new to BiggerPockets
Hello!I am so happy I found this website! I have been involved with real estate for the last two years, but I decided to start a real estate investing business over the last five months or so. I have set some solid go...
Jack Bobeck
Can you legally rent the house back to the shorted owners?
I thought I had heard it all, but my father just purchased a short sale home and the owners asked their realtor who asked my father's realtor if they could rent the house for 3 more months after the sale date?
My imm...
Justin Wilkey
Appliances - Where to buy
Does anyone have suggestions on where to buy appliances that cater more to landlords? I have 16 units and I figure I'm going to be buying a refrigerator 1X/year at a minimum. I've been dealing with the big box stores ...
Rachel Gill
Negative Nellys
What do you say to the naysayers? And what if that naysayer is your spouse? My thought is that actions speak louder than words, so I'm hoping that my first flip & fix is a success, which will speak for itself. Any...
Danielle Durasso
Timeline questions...or maybe I'm just impatient…?
So I am hoping that someone here can help me a bit with the timing of a short sale. I’m gonna give the long version as I think it will cover most everything I know…and hopefully help someone help me.About a year ago ...
Ken Riedel
Overseas investing
My wife is a Romanian immigrant, and her brother (still in the old country) did well in Real Estate investing in Romania before the market crash in 2008. As bad as the crash was here, it was worse there. He's been t...
Rick Bassett
Applicants with undisclosed significant other
Maybe it's the way that the housing authority in our area works or our local culture but it seems that the vast majority of the applicants that we get who are on public assistance almost always fail to disclose that t...
Marcus Auerbach
Milwaukee - from rust belt to digital belt
Here is a post from Jonas Prising, the CEO of the ManpowerGroup (workforce agency, a $19 Billion business - yes with a "B") about Milwaukee. @Meredith L. asked me the other day about the development of employment - wh...
Chris Petzy
Investing in a flood zone
Anyone invest in a flood zone lately? Looking at a place close to the beach and aside from flood insurance, any other protection strategies?
James Maher
High Power Bill
My tenant let me know last month that their power bill was about double what it had been. Since it was really cold, I wasn't concerned too much about it, but still had an HVAC tech go check it out. I wanted to make ...