Michael Halow
Direct mail Database Management Tools
I need a solution for managing real estate leads for my direct mail campaigns in a database. I need to be able to constantly upload new leads, names, and addresses. I want to be able to manage the duplicates. I need t...
John J.
Tenant Comitted Suicide
Hey Guys,
I need some important advice. One of my dads tenants has committed suicide in his rental house. He was late on his rent by a month and a half and from what we are finding out the power was also recently s...
Bill Goodland
Hit a Goal I Set 3 Years Ago!
So I found BiggerPockets in around November 2016 and listened to every single podcast in a matter of months. I just dove right in but at the time, I had just found out that I would be going back to grad school as a fu...
Chris Turek
1031 vs accelerated deprecation for qualified real estate prof.
I will try to summarize my situation. I sold a property last week and hired the necessary firm to put it into a 1031 exchange. I have a cap gain of about 400k. I have identified a property to purchased that would c...
David Boroughes
Scaling up. Have too many mortgages, what to do?
I have several conventional mortgages on rental properties I own. I'd like to keep buying, but the banks are saying too many mortgages and debt to income doesn't look good (they go off tax returns, not leases for inco...
Ryan Santos
Turn Key Companies who to avoid
I'm from the Seattle area and interested in purchasing properties for passive income, lately been looking at different turn key properties and been reading BP forums for certain companies. I've been seeing different o...
Simon Obas
How soon should you change your listing agent?
I have a home listed for 11 days and I’ve had zero offers. It’s a flip so the home is fully renovated. Given that it’s a sellers market I assumed as soon as the home listed, the offers would start pouring in but nope...
Chris Martin
?Thinking of an investment in a hedge fund?
Now that the hedge fund managers are ready to cash out on their SFR rampage, I wanted to take a look at some of their numbers. Is it a deal or no deal? Here is a quick, back of the envelope analysis, based on the a...
Philip Sriployrung
Bonus Depreciation - Schedule E vs C
Hi everyone,I'm using a FreeTaxUSA to file my taxes. I currently own one rental SFR, purchased May of 2018. I did an online cost segregation study through KBKG. I was able to break out my depreciation based on the 5/1...
Bill Hinshaw
Our First Flip
Purchase price - $255,000Expected rehab - $80,000Expected ARV - $425,000Actual rehab/carrying costs - $155,000Actual sell price - $525,000Profit - $76,400Time to complete – 7 months to get on market, 9 months to close...