Tom Sharkey
Should you charge a pet fee in your STR? YES, You should!
Do you allow pets in your short term rentals? There is good justification whether yes or no. We find it works for us in the summer season but it depends on your risk tolerance as pets can significantly damage your pro...
Lauren Hogan
Why Do You Invest in Los Angeles? (Testimonial for BP!)
BiggerPockets! I work at BP and I'm working on building a landing page for Los Angeles. Would anyone be willing to share why you choose to invest in the city? What makes it so wonderful? Would you tell others to inves...
Adrian Lammersdorf-Scioll
What are you doing to find deals?
What are some strategies you are using to find deals? I have been investing now for about 3 years in real estate, and I'm finding it harder, and harder to find deals for my clients and myself that work. I use some m...
Corinne Ulloa
Structuring a Seller Financed Deal that's too good to pass up
Hello BP Community,I am a newbie investor that is looking to jump into the market with a 4-Plex deal in a college town. I have had analysis paralysis and am ready to get this journey started. I have not had any conver...
Keith Jourdan
BRRRR single family with before and after pics! Metro Detroit
Picked up this house in Redford Mi on a bankruptcy deal for $58k. Redford is 15 min west of Detroit. Decent area where homes sell for ARV of around 80-150k depending on size/location. Redford is in the Livonia/Westlan...
Sundone Boutvyseth
LLC for STR?
Just bought my first investment property and will be using it as an STR. I'm debating on creating an LLC when listing my rental. Has anybody else done this? I'm doing this to protect me if any accidents happen in/on t...
Jeff Bisgier
I'm panicking! Just bought my first property.
Hi folks. I joined BP awhile back when my wife and I decided that we really wanted to get involved in real estate investing, namely flipping. I've tried to educate myself and have looked at a bunch of properties but n...
Scott Goulet
hard money and debt-to-income ratio questions
Hello BP, I have a question regarding hard money loans and the debt-to-income ratio. I want to use a hard money lender to purchase a medium-sized multi-family property for buy and hold purposes. After the rehab, I wan...
Ivette Bravo
How are people buying?
How are people able to buy apartment complexes (5+ units) while “the numbers” making NO sense IN THIS MARET. Everything we underwrite looks terrible - (2% cash on cash AT BEST). Granted where conservative with our num...
Chad S.
FSBO trying to sell house for 4yrs - How should I handle it??
So I contacted a FSBO owner today. The “house” is a double wide that has had additions added to it and sits on 10 acres. The inside of the home is very dated (wooden toilet seats, early 90’s cabinets, etc) and was b...