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Hi there! I'm looking to hop out of the corporate rat race after having been laid off twice in the last year. I am currently in California and am looking to get into real estate investing and would love your thoughts ...
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Hi all,I'm Katie, new to BP, and a full-time English teacher, soon to be a landlord. I'm also a traveler. A few times a year, I go out of town for up to a month at a time in summer, a couple of weeks in winter, as w...
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I’ve got nightmare tenants in my rental property. The septic keeps backing up into the basement shower. It took a month of doing multiple repairs to septic, laterals etc to figure out the problem. We started snaggi...
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I have a HUGE amount of equity (over 1 million) in my primary residence. I am in a great position; however, I am not sure what to do and have thought of a few options:Option 1: Keep home and do nothing; however, I wo...
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Im trying to prepare myself to make my first real estate investment, mostly financially. But during this time, i have a lot of negative feedback from family/friends about all the things that could go wrong. from bad o...
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We know that HCOL cities have high rent, high property taxes, and high prices for everything. This year, my Slack acquaintance couple purchased a $2.6 million 3bedroom condo apartment in Greenwich Village, Manhattan w...
Hello, I live in Montgomery County, MD and about 3 month ago I rented my basement to a single lady. I gathered one month security deposit and first month rent at the day of moving. After the first month she stopped p...
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Pretty Pumped. Just completed my first rehab. Learned a lot and looking forward to moving onto the next one. Before & After:
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I feel really stupid because I just learned from this site that the scott yancey real estate investing workshop is a scam. I want to do real estate. I'm 32 years old. I have two children, a worthless two year degree. ...
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I have an applicant interested in one of the flats in my duplex, who has a stable job as an engineer at a large company and makes over 70k a year. However his credit score is quite low (around 550), and it shows he ha...