Eric Wood
My First Contractor Dispute - Very Scared!
At the beginning of April I purchased my first investment property, and now I've found myself in my first dispute with a contractor. I'm definitely learning a lot from this experience, but I am really hoping to receiv...
Bryan N.
Leases - Lessons Learned
I was reading some forums and it got me thinking as I am creating my own lease. I've used several local PM companies leases to "learn" from. What have people added to leases after learning from the school of hard kn...
Ludmila M.
What are the cons of taking out ROTH IRA contributions?
My husband and I were thinking of taking some money out of our ROTH IRA for the REI business. The amount we'd withdraw would be around 20% of our overall retirement funds. We are in our 40s, if that matters.Aside from...
Hector Ayala
Advise on contractor's quote
Hello everyone, we are currently in the process of buying our first home that needs work, we are going with a 203k loan to fix it and have some equity after all is done.We have received our first quote and we want to ...
Par Attaran
Found a home that needs ton of work, find a contractor on CL?
Curious how you guys go about finding a contractor that will walk through a property with you and give an estimate on repairs ? It appears to be a deal if the rehab isn't too crazy, but want to be sure before buying. ...
Joel Moore
Help a newbie looking at investing in Buffalo New York
Hello I`m looking for my first rental in Buffalo New York, Im in Canada but only 1.5h away, so i can still visit my properties occasionally. I will be using a property management company and hope to obtain multiple pr...
Jason C.
Evicting for discharge of firearm in the house
So we had an incident in one of our duplexes where a guest of the tenant was shot inside the home. I heard about it from the tenant on the other side who was afraid for their own safety, obviously. They have called me...
Mayson Madden
First time Home Buyer- Quad Plex
For StartersFirst off, BiggerPockets is an amazing site. I have been one of those lurkers everyday while listening podcast after podcast for almost a year now. Started taking the advice of Brandon and Josh and communi...
Serena Sun
Urgent: Water Leak for brand new house, Please help!!!
Hi Everyone, First, thanks to those who advise me to refinance our old primary to buy a new home. We just finished refinance and use it as the down payment for a brand new house, and it will be closed in couple days. ...
Elizaveta Dolzhenko
Potential tenant cannot pay deposit in full
Hi,
My husband and I are trying to rent out our first property and we came across a potential tenant who would like to pay deposit over the first two months - first half along with first months rent prior to ...