Christian Hubbs
Data, tools, and API's for Property Data
Hi everyone,I am wondering where you go for your data. I'm looking into multi-family units in Pittsburgh and I've been working with the Zillow API using the ZillowR package but keep running into a 501 error (Protected...
Austin Smith
Best way to run financial operations for landlord business
Hello BP'ers Just wanted to gain insight on how you run your rental business in regards to finance operations. Do you accept rent payment electronically? Did you open up a separate bank account to track income/expense...
Joshua Dorkin
How Do You Scan, Manage and Organize Your Reciepts & Paperwork?
Just curious as to the tools and organization system different people are using to manage their receipts and paperwork. Admittedly, I'm still using old-school methods of organizing actual paper instead of scanning, s...
Jamison Colston
Raising credit scores for young potential investors?
For those here. I have a friend with a credit score of about 580 or so. Can't remember the exact number but she is wondering about ways she can raise it up quickly. I've never had a credit score below high 600's or so...
Will Bradford
How to stop no shows
I just got back from a showing where the prospective tenant didn't show. It was scheduled for 7pm and I called about 5 after and of course it went to voicemail.
I'm just looking for tips from experienced lan...
James Rodenberg
Self Manage or Hire PM?
Morning everyone!
I haven't posted in a few days so I figured I'd jump in here and get a discussion started. I have a goal to post at least once a week to get to know you guys as well as make sure I'm consistently le...
Rachel Luoto
401k vs REI: time for a change?
Hey friend :)I am currently maxing out my 401k, which leaves almost nothing left to save for a down payment. This made sense: my company offered a 25% match on 100% of my contributions. However, I am now planning to l...
Ryan Fatula
Spinning my wheels acquiring my next rehab!
Hi guys,
Over the past year I've successfully flipped 2 REO properties I picked up off MLS. I'm an agent and got them both relatively easily. I placed an aggresive offer on the first, and on the second I had the REO ...
Zack Ellard
Have $40k and ready to start investing
Hey guys. My wife and I are about to sell the house I owned before we got married (we currently live in hers) and we will have about $40K to work with to begin our investing career. We do have about $14K credit card d...
Kyle Lewis
CapEx reserves included in expenses?
I've used a variety of deal analysis calculators and many of them include CapEx estimates/reserves in the 'Expenses' category, like this:Income - Expenses (including CapEx estimates) = NOIBut shouldn't CapEx estimates...