Alan Charles
Baltimore buy and hold market.
I am encouraged to research further into the Baltimore buy and hold rental market due to the rent to value numbers. My intention is to buy and hold a stack of SFH's in a good cash flow area. It appears from my initial...
Owen Schwaegerle
Breaking the Section 8 Stigma
If you’re a landlord you’ve been trained to be leery of Section 8 housing. There is a negative stigma associated with the program and people who receive vouchers in the program. We recently had a panel at the SLO Real...
Felix Stone
Which one decision accelerated your growth the most in RE?
Hi All - Trying to collect facts here (instead of ideas/opinions) from all the people who have achieved Financial Independence. I can believe some are lucky and capable of picking the right move right from the get go ...
Account Closed
Disregarded LLC Tax Reporting Issue - How Have You Reported?
Some background before I post - I am a tax guy - started at Ernst & Young in 1993 and have been in the tax business since. My full time day job is to argue with tax auditors.I have a situation that I'm curious ho...
Ryan M.
Why do people use property management companies
This is a question I have always had.......A property management PM takes upwards 10% of gross for receiving the rents. Bills every time for a repair and some add a rider on top of the repair. Bills a substantial amou...
Rob C.
Rodent droppings scattered all over the attic- Dealbreaker?
A house I'm considering purchasing has a pest problem, and there are a lot of rodent droppings in the garage and attic. If I go through with purchasing it, I'm planning to hire a pest control company to get rid of the...
Brian W.
What to do if an urgent problem (plumbing, HVAC, etc.) can't be resolved immediately?
What do I do if an urgent problem (plumbing, HVAC, etc.) comes up on, say, Christmas Day and the plumber or HVAC guy or whoever can't get to it that day?
Chris Jones
Did the SF Bay Area market just turn?
Over the past few weeks I have begun to get the sense that the San Francisco Bay Area market may be turning a corner. I have very little data to back up my feeling, and I am certainly not a market timing expert, so I ...
Will Barnard
Join the crusade - perform or get eliminated
This post is created for 3 purposes. One is to vent, two is to identify if this is an isolated occurrance or Nationwide, and three to have all of us join together to do something about it.
Here is the problem/situati...
Ben Jacobs
Help!!! New to this. 200k and no idea what to do with it.
Aloha, I consider myself pretty new to the real estate game and I'm in a weird situation. I have about 200k set aside for an investment however I don't any provable income. I think Hawaii has to be one of the hardest ...