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Hi BiggerPockets, This is my first post to the forums. I am very excited and driven to find my very first REI property. My goal is to find a 2 flat in a Chicago neighborhood and live in one of the units (House Hacking...
I have a really big nice house in the North West side of San Antonio Texas, just a few miles from Sea world & Six Flags. The home is in a very desirable area. It is 4 bedroom, 3 full bath, 3 car garage. Very seni...
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Good morning! Just curious how many of you have been to house auctions either online or in person, and if you feel you can acquire a good deal from them? I recently was in contact with someone who has a house to get...
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What would YOU do if you:- Had a full time W2 job with decent income and lived in the suburbs of Chicago- Were great with business writing, marketing, talking to people, sales and making things happen- Were interested...
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Hi, the tenants we have in one of our houses seems to have another person living with them. I need to address this with them, but what do I say if they say he's "just visiting"? What constitutes "living" there, and ...
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Hello all,
I'm new to this forum & investing. Any suggestions for out-of-state investing? How does the property tax work if I live in CA and want to purchase out of state? Do we still get to write this off? I...
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I have searched for this all day, but perhaps my google-fu or my insufficient REI lexicon isn't allowing me to find the right results.I just purchased a fourplex and will be occupying while renovating. Two of the unit...
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Hello Bigger Pockets community! What a fantastic resource. My wife and I have owned rentals for about 10 years...currently have 3. We are looking to learn to Wholesale and work our way to refurb and flipping and po...
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Hey everyone.Our Airbnb came with a Vivint Security System(door sensor, smart deadbolts, window sensors on all windows, video doorbell, camera in back and a few other things). It's $50 a month for the monitoring.How ...
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Hi All, my name is Jason Woodford and I'm new to real estate investing. I work in the corporate world in the energy industry but it has long been a goal of mine to purchase buy and hold properties and to flip houses....