KENDRA J.
Rental home used for assisted living home
I have been contacted by a home care company that operates senior assisted living care homes. They are interested in renting my house long term to use as an assisted living home for 4 residents. They have been in busi...
Raman Bindlish
Acquired property in December - does it go on tax return?
I acquired my first out of state property on Dec 15, 2015. I rented it out starting January 2016. So, there is no rental income or expenses of any kind in 2015 other than purchase cost and some pro-rated tax and insur...
Sammy Patel
Newbie needing help with Bigger Pockets Rental Calculator
Does the rental calculator on Bigger Pockets take into account the equity in the property when calculating ROI? It seems the ROI on the calculator is based on cash flow and cash put in. But if I wanted a ROI including...
Zaire-Leon Faddis
Im new to the idea of real estate investing and being a realtor
Hi, im new to all of this and i wanted to ask a few questions about some things.First about me. Im a 18 almost 19 year old boy. I live in Bellevue, Washington and i want to get into real estate investing and also beco...
Matthew Menning
Property Manager - Principle Agent Problem
Hi All,
So here is the situation. I employ a 3rd party management company to manage my units. They make a percentage of collected rent, and also do most maintenance and repairs using their own crew, which I...
James Otto
Making offers
My wife and I want to make an offer on a 32 unit apartment complex. The price is 2.8 mil. I've run the numbers over and over again and the most we would want to offer and still cash flow is 2.3 mil. The owner is going...
Jon Klaus
Text marketing tools or services?
Any recommendations for text marketing? Tools, services, or techniques?
James Bird
To rent (to myself) or not to rent
I bought a 4 bed 2 bath split-entry foreclosure 2 years ago as my first home (and still live there). I'm currently closing on my second single family and looking for a 3rd, so I set up the LLC, bank accounts, etc.My c...
Cheyenne Jones
Everyone has success stories, what was your biggest failure.
We all have success stories, but what about the costly mistakes, the bad judgement, the failure to understand expenses.. Before I get back into real estate, I'd appreciate hearing from any of you that have made big mi...
Robert D.
tenant at fault repair
so i have a section 8 tenant in one of my rentals. she is a good tenant. about a month after she moved in we had the plumbers come out and roto rooter the main line leaving the house. i didnt mind. the cause for this ...