Peter Presunka
New member from the South Bay, California
I live in Campbell, California and have recently joined BP. Since joining a week ago, I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to a number of the podcasts on my daily commute. I have been investing for 4 years now and ha...
J Corona
New tenant in ICU
Friend bought his first property and inherited a tenant on a month to month. Verbal commitment to sign 1 year lease with me. Day of signing, tenant goes missing, and never came back, home sits with all his stuff 2 mon...
Alissa Kitamura
New to RE Investing - South Florida/Miami Investment Strategy?
Hello BP Fam!
I am a newbie and am very interested in starting my RE investing career to achieve financial freedom! I am 30 years old, working a full-time job at a marketing agency, and have decent credit score (a li...
Garett Jacobs
Starting out with this deal...what do you think, money maker or t
Hi, my Name is Garett Jacobs...Ive been in the trades since I was 18 though my dad was a painter so I was an subject to indentured servitude since from around l the age of 13. I've lived in the Topsham/Brunswick area ...
Jeff Deville
Evaluating Vacation Rental Areas
I'm looking at vacation rentals in areas I've never personally visited, and was wondering what everyone did to evaluate the level of demand in a particular area. If you can add think of anything I'm missing from this...
Joshua Boyd
Question on Legality of Triplex
Hi all,I've been following the BiggerPockets forum and podcast for a couple years now, learning all I can and waiting until we had the money saved to buy our first home with an eye toward RE investing. My wife and I f...
Brent Hanson
First investment
Very common thread i get it! Im new here... So i want to throw this out.Im 31 own a home in the bay area, not interested investing around here because numbers dont make sense....I have about 150-200k to start my real...
Jarrod Deines
Newbie Amateur Landlord in Washington DC
Hello BP,My name is Jarrod and I am currently in the military, living in Guam, but will be retiring in about two years. I count my location as DC, since that is where my property is, though I most likely won’t move b...
Lyle Cooper
New landlord: dealing with damage: Cracked porcelain sink
A tenant recently moved into my NYC rental unit. He needed the pipes under the bathroom sink tightened up. So I went by yesterday and let myself in. Fixed the pipes and as I was cleaning up I noticed a crack in one...
Steven Kleppin
Using an Agent for small apartments?
Is it standard to use a real estate agent when purchasing small (12-unit specifically in my case) apartments? The info on the property is already available through the listing broker, I know how to run the numbers, an...