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BP Community--Happy Thanksgiving!I am about to close on a property in Chicago (in two weeks). I just asked my lender if there are any issues with purchasing the property via land trust. He researched guidelines for co...
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Hello! My wife and I are under contract on a second home, and we plan to rent our current house out. We are excited to start this journey. We plan on managing the rental ourselves. I am curious if we should start an...
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Hello all!
I am looking into taking my real estate licensure exam either in Feb or March for NY state. After obtaining my license I seek to build up my network to get the ball rolling with real estate. I plan on pu...
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I just bought my first investment property in my name (all cash) in the Detroit Michigan area. Before I file the home transfer affidavit and submit the shorter rental application with the city and setup utilities, sho...
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What do you think would be some good qualifying questions to ask of a prospective real estate lawyer? For context, my business partner and I are just starting out in real estate investing in the Boston area, and we ar...
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My sister and I just bought our first rental property together in Providence, RI! As we started going through the closing process a month ago, we began asking ourselves, "do we need to form an LLC?" The main concern ...
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Hey everyone, i am looking for some advice on the best way to own rental properties out of state and be protected. I have one LLC in Montana where we built our first project but now i am investing in Ohio and plan to ...
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Hey guys,I'm not super new to real estate investing, but I am new to BP. I spent a few years in the restaurant industry as well as other small business ventures while dabbling in real estate, but have just started ge...
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I am just starting out. I don’t own an investment properties yet. Every time I listen to BP and they are talking about having your LLC set up properly, come tax time, I never know what they are truly talking about. I’...
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Hi - We are 3 partners who are buying rentals in LLCs and we also started a property management company(PMC) to self manage these properties. The PMC communicates with tenants, collect rents so on so forth. For privac...