Eric Wang
The 5 Steps It Takes to Invest in a Real Estate Partnership
For many people, investing in a real estate partnership will be a new endeavor, but we describe the process in just a few steps here. Preparing for these steps will give you confidence to take on your first deal. Over...
Jake Cowley
If you had to start all over....
Hi BP community, Warning: This is a long post in an effort to help newbies like myself gain insight into how we can be successful as we hear from you on what strategy you'd recommend if you started over again. For thi...
Sara Rush
Possible fix and flip
We are new to this and have not done anything in real estate before. I’ve been watching bigger pockets off and on for 9 months but still feel clueless. We have looked at getting a loan to buy our first home and we wer...
Dallas Thomson
Conventional Loan vs. Hard Money
Hello Bigger Pockets Community!
I'm looking for some advice on the type of loan I should use for my first buy-and-hold rental. I've saved up a chunk of funds, maximized my credit score, and paid off a substantial amo...
Kenny McCray
Property Management: to outsource or not???
Welp... things didn’t work out with my previous property manager, who was working for me in-house. That is the second one that didn’t work out. I’ve invested in Buildium, got my leases and processes down, a file sha...
Michael Zagorsky
Schdule E: Converting long term rental to personal not count?
From the instructions for Schedule E, was confused about this line:Do not count as personal use:• Any day you spent working substantially full time repairing and maintaining the unit, even if family membersused it for...
Tyler Clark
R-3 Zoning in Phoenix
Hello Friends -I recently came across a 5-Unit property in Central PHX. The existing livable sq. ft. is 2,800 with the lot size being 19,500 sq ft. It is zoned for R-3 and there seems to be able space to add up to 4 m...
April L. Williams
Any Good Self-Directed IRA's out There??
I recently invested a small chunk of change in with a company to roll over into a "traditional IRA", which was then rolled over into a "self-directed IRA." However, I'm not very happy with the ethics of the company. ...
Tyrelle Johnson
Transactional funding or Hard Money for a double close
During a wholesale deal with a double closing would you have to use Transactional funding or Hard Money to closes the deal on the sellers side.
Account Closed
Best/longest lasting toilet fill valve
Landlords: what brand is your longest lasting/most trouble free toilet fill valve and flapper. I manage a property with only five toilets but the fill valves seem to need endless replacing. There's extremely hard w...