Hello BP. Newbie here and just wanted to say hi to the community. I actually first joined BP about a year ago. I lurked around a bit at that time but life kind of got in the way of pursuing my interest in educating my...

Hello - I hope this is the correct forum to post this in...  I am still learning how to analyze deals and experimenting with finding and entering accurate information.  My overall goal is income replacement and i'm lo...

I am new to the forum and new to real estate in general. Early this week we began the process of hunting for our first home. I ran across BP as I researched buying a home and something just clicked this week. We have ...

Hi guys. I have bought my first rental property in Hawthorne neighborhood of Indy. I just listed on several sites through Avail.co.  So far not many hits. I think asking rent is in the correct range comparing to what'...

Do you as hosts pay the airbnb service fee or defer it to the guest? Standard is 3% fee for the host and 20% fee for the guest. But, if hosts choose to pay the guest’s fee, airbnb will knock that 20% down to 11%. So t...

Hi everyone,

I'm in the process of buying a triplex (foreclosure). It looks like it's in very good condition and should be move-in ready. I will be using FHA Financing.

The problem is that the bank gave...

Hello everyone, I'm in need of some guidance. I bought a 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom property in Orlando near Disney World for short-term rentals. It's been a year, and contrary to my initial profit projections, I've been c...

Creative finance and creative negotiating is about the same thing.  There are many definitions for the so called creative stuff, so what it is? In my opinion, it is a buyer attempting to put together a transaction tha...

Might be a dumb question and/ or answered somewhere else in this sea of great information, but it seems that the BP consensus is that out of state absentee owners are preferred over in state absentee owners. I get tha...

Hello everyone. I am new to this community and I live in Jacksonville, FL. I contacted my local Better Business Bureau in hopes of locating a mentor, but I was unable to do so because they stated they do not provide a...