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We are experiencing heat wave right now in LA (and other areas in the state and in the country), where the A/Cs are not totally efficient. Some areas have even experienced power outage during the most part of the week...
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Hello all, First, a little about me. I am 33 years old, married with a son who will turn 2 in two weeks and live outside of Dayton, OH. I have a Business Management degree and am currently working toward my MBA in He...
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I have heard getting an LLC and EIN to manage my first rental as a business was good. But an experienced friend just told me that it is actually better to get Umbrella Insurance because if set up as an LLC I can still...
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Hi BP fam! I have an airbnb ready to go life. I have a cleaning company while I'll be managing the property remotely. Can someone suggest a local property manager on demand? Someone who can occasional come to check th...
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Hello! I'm new to Real Estate Investing, and I want to get more involved here in BP. I have a question that I haven't seen here in the Starting Out forum. Some backstory: I work for a large corporation here in Cen...
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Hello,I'm a buy and hold investor from Illinois and I'm looking to invest in some multi-family units in Florida. Can be Orlando, Clearwater, or Tampa areas (or ??). Looking to make some connections and building some i...
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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 ...
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Hi All,I overpaid a contractor and they have failed to perform on the contracted work. There were red flags but I had worked with this contractor before and did not have issues. I am weighing suing the contractor but ...
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So I've had the same tenant for 2.5 years and he's currently 6 months into a 2 year lease. He's always been a great tenant and never had any major requests and I've been pretty quick to get everything fixed that has ...
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I own homes in another state. I've leased them out for a number of years and always had the lessee responsible for full maintenance of the property as if they were the homeowner. The exception to that is I've paid...