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Far too often landlords seeking residential property management services are asking one question for the initial vetting of the service. “What is your management rate?” Unfortunately, sometimes this is the only questi...
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Long story short..I have one rental (been renting it out for past 10 months) and it is fully paid for and I want to be legitimate with taxes, deductions, etc. I want to keep things as simple as possible, so I guess...
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Hello BiggerPockets! I was listening to podcast 100 today interviewing Joshua Dorkin and it wasnt until he had said it, that it didn't occur to me. Use BiggerPockets to network! It makes sense!I hail from Statesvil...
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This is a post based off of curiosity. To all self managing landlords that switched to using a property management company, what caused you to make the switch? Was there a situation you encountered that deterred you f...
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Hello,
I have a solo 401k that I have not done much with but thought about using it to purchase buy and hold rental properties. I'm interested primarily in multi unit properties duplex to fourplex and would be looki...
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I'm a very new landlord dealing with my first tenants, in my first ever rental property (Washington State, Snohomish County), and really need some advice/guidance.Background: I have a large 3-bdrm condo that is being ...
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What would you do in my position to acquire another income producing property of any type. Land? SFR? Commercial? Long Distance? ( I know what I want to do, but would like to see how other people would approach this ...
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Hello BPers,Due to recent rise in the market, I wanted to run the potential options to see what other “long buy and hold investors” are doing. What are your thoughts on potential strategies below? Appreciate your inpu...
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Hello all, I am new to land-lording (~2 years) and in San Diego, CA. We don't have a property management company. Last night a tenant got drunk and locked herself out. She scaled the building and broke a glass sliding...
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Hi all,For the past few weeks I've been researching cash flow properties near Boston and Providence (with the logic that I can't always be on site to do an extended flip or new build). Prior to that though I had been ...