David Epstein
Real Estate Investor - Standards Deduction?
BP friends,Just want to get your take on things: I am fairly meticulous when it comes to record keeping (or at least record keeping catch up around tax time) and still find myself looking at a better deduction using s...
David Slater
HST on a flip - do you...
Pay HST or not? We are looking a different properties to flip. Our investor has come back saying his accountant recommended to walk away as the post reno sale will be subject to HST substantially hitting his (and our)...
Alexander Miller
Best Online Resources for Property and Demographic Data
Hi Everyone,I'm looking to pull the trigger and pay for a platform for accessing property data and hopefully demographic/population data as well. For example, websites like PropStream, BatchLeads, Property Shark seem ...
Raa Brass
Newbie Couple from NYC
My wife and I have thought about venturing into the world of real estate investing for a couple of years now but have been reluctant to pull the trigger (hard to justify risking your savings with three kids and colle...
Jamie Barton
Rental Covenants - Income & Rent Restrictions
The covenants limit income for tenants to 80% of the median income of the area which means that I could only rent to people making less than $36,000/year. It also caps rents. The current rent cap is about $940. The...
David Crouch
Strategy to invest - Fundrise/alt or other?
Hello,I have monthly loan payments equalling about 500.00 per month and have about 50k to try and come up with a strategy.I was looking into something like Fundrise, in which I can earn about 6k per year assuming a 12...
Rene Lee Ramirez
New to Bigger Pockets and looking to Network in the RGV!
Hello everyone, I am new to Bigger Pockets and I am a Realtor with Emerald Realty Group, Powered by Fox Real Estate Pros out of Edinburg, Texas. If anyone has any questions on the market in the area, or real estate in...
Brian Tschida
4 Plex under contract. What am I missing?
Have my second deal under contract, wanted to throw out some numbers and to see if I'm missing anything. Also the BP calculators are great but this one seems confusing to plug in.
Its a triplex that we are planning t...
Amy Zemser
Vacation Rental Software
Hi everyone. I'm about to pull the trigger on LiveRez and was wondering if anyone has used it before or has other software to recommend? I need the software to do everything you can think of, as my vacation property m...
David Pascual
Legal steps when entering a partnership
A friend and I are looking to partner up on some projects when we are ready to pull the trigger (he will help with the financing and I will find the deals) before we do anything what legal steps do we need to take bec...