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I'm in Illinois should that help anyone. I'm not asking about any laws or legal advice. I happened to run into a perfect short sale situation on a pre-foreclosure property, similar to the SS deal l did 5-years ago. It...
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I was wondering if anyone knew of any Social Media Marketing courses out there that would teach how to market on those platforms from scratch.
How do these numbers look on a spec deal? Enough return to justify the risk in your opinion?Lot: $325,000Construction costs: $450,000Financing costs: $35,000 (est.)Closing & commissions: $40,000 (est.)BREAKEVEN: ...
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Our tenants want to have satellite TV and have asked if they can have a satellite dish installed through Century Link on our SFR at our tenants' expense. When we bought our SFR, there was already a satellite dish on t...
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I'm weighing my options for buy and hold strategies and was hoping people with experience could chime in. I'm interested in learning more about Vacation rentals, what sites work the best, horror stories, success stor...
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I'm looking to use my IRA to invest in real estate. I'm looking for any advise from anyone who is doing this and which company are you using as the custodian. Thank you.
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Hello BP community,I have a newbie question. Let's say you own a rental property. How do you go about arranging the electric, gas, water, and other utility bills to be paid by the tenants? Do you deactivate the ser...
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Hello,
I have 10 single family homes as rentals. I opened a checking account for each property to manage its rent collection and to pay its expenses, ie: mortgage, maintenance, etc. Each month I scrape these accounts ...
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In the commercial arena I've been seeing many listings for corporate-owed properties with lease-backs. I'm curious why a corporation would want to sell-off their property and loose control of both their rent and an ap...
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Hello,
I bought a multi-unit property in August 2012. The ex-owner of the property signed a 5 year leasing contract with Coinmach for washer & dryer which I'm not aware. The contract will end in 2015. I don't wa...