David Sisson
Tenant clogged the drain. What do I do?
Last week the tenant called - sewer was backing up into the bathroom. I called the rooter guys right away. They snaked the drain and pulled out tampons and wipes. Tenant has been in the house over a year. My cost was ...
Kenneth Silva
Maxing out income on cape cod vacation rental
I'm seriously considering getting into vacation rentals on capecod. Falmouth Ma to be more specific. My concern is with the shorter peak season in the northeast which I believe is around 10 weeks in the summer. It wil...
Isaiah Freeman
Investor from Lexington, KY
Hello fellow REI fanatics-My name is Isaiah Freeman. I've literally been a member on here for just about a year but this is my first post. I'm currently in Dallas, TX and have been here for 2 weeks. I moved from Nashv...
Nathaniel Green
Architect Living and Working in Pittsburgh
I am a soon to be first time investor looking to jump into 'House Hacking' and 'rent to own' properties while I maintain my full time job as an architect at a contracting company. I want to 'house hack' to build savin...
David Collado
Starting out and at a crossroad
Hello everyone!Since this is my first post I’ll just get straight to it. I am currently 25 years old, living in Long Island NY. Over the past 4 years I’ve become obsessed with real estate investing and have been educa...
James Piercy
Remote handyman access
I am taking over managing my duplex going into 2019. Unfortunately, it is on the opposite side of town for me. I’d like to set the property up to be as remotely manageable as possible. What are solutions used to grant...
Sharon Duvall- Humes
Searching for an answer
Hello BP family,My partner and I are pretty much at a standstill in terms of finding funding for certain properties that we want to pursue. I would like to know, for the first timers, how did you go about finding capi...
William Graves
Methods to determining ARV
Hey everyone!I’m currently reading The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs, and it’s been a great read so far!I’m trying to learn the process, and my next step is learning good ways to estimate the after rehab value or ARV...
Luis Lopez
Not a good deal or just a bad neighborhood
So I took the approach of going after a good deal to bring in the cash buyers (as opposed to building up a cash buyer list first). So now I have a non-mls property under contract (7 days) and no buyer yet. It's in a...
William Ellis
Hypothetical Scenario
My wife and I are looking to start building a portfolio of rental properties and really are just trying to get a handle on the whole process at the moment. I was wondering if I gave a possible scenario if I could get ...