Why would a company that has "no appetite" for investment drag potential customers through application and appraisal expenses while not intending to invest? Here is a story of a community bank in California (I'll post...

Hey BP. How accurate are short term vacation rental market research tools such as AirDNA, Everbooked, Mashvisor?I am looking at Destin, FL and these sites are putting out numbers for a 2/2 condo as generating 40-50k ...

1. Site Selection, 2. Considerations blog, 3. Site layout, This may be a little disjointed, I am combining 3 different blogs and discussions I have had.
1. Site Selection:
Your near Detroit, so I will do this ...

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I'm soaking up a lot of info here and one thing I keep running across is the need to put down accurate repair numbers. For someone such as myself which doesn't have a RE background or a background...

Hello Bigger Pockets community,My name is Dan, and I have been an avid listener since late last year, and made my first jump into real estate/STR this year after holding off for some time. I am in a bit of a sticky an...

Hey folks- I want to re-vamp my rental website to allow tenants to pay rent on the page with their checking account. I don't want to use a third-party like Dwolla or WilliamPaid. I simply want them to go there, type i...

I am completely new to real estate investing.  How do I develop a local network of real estate professionals to work with?

Hello,Currently reside in NY, I'm new to REI, and right now in process of learning investment strategies and markets. I'm thinking about buy and hold option in NC. I would appreciate any insight on the current market ...

Hey BP friends, I'm writing as an active real estate investor in the Tampa bay market for the past few years.  Mostly, I buy properties cash and have been acquiring them through the auctions and MLS.  Lately, I've be...

The Portland market has been very good to us and has provided a nice landscape to try out different real estate strategies and niches. One of these strategies was short term rentals. They provided killer cash flow and...