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We do a lot of seminars for free in our area on various topics such as land contract home ownership and IRA investing. Every month the challenge is of course to get people to show up to these events.
What are some e...
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I had a seller that contacted me from my direct mail postcard wanting to sell her house because she didn't know what to do with it now that she is in a nursing home. Her only concern is not being able to get Medicaid ...
Recently I bought my first house and I had a spare bedroom. So I debated on renting the room out since I live close to a local college. I though it would be easy to rent out a small bedroom to one of the students. But...
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I put an offer in on a duplex yesterday in the Jacksonville FL area. It is a 3bed 3 bath in one unit (which is what caught my attention!) and the other is a 2 bed 2 bath. They are asking $185k ”as is” and I went in at...
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I put in a offer on a foreclosure here in GA and the LA responded after 3 days saying that they wanted highest and best. My first offer was 5k above asking but I only offered 1k of earnest money. I didn't realize that...
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How much of a discount do you recommend for longer term renters that are good tenants? Should you keep the rents up to market or nearly so or give your longer term tenants a substantial discount (10% or more). What ...
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Hi guys / gals,
Just wondering from your landlording experience that when your tenant's lease is up (1 year), is it better to have them go month to month or have them sign a new one year contract?
My goal is to keep...
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I've been managing a handful of rentals for the last 15 years, but you learn something new everyday either about the business or about yourself. I'm writing this as I sit here mid January in the freezing cold when e...
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My so- called investor friendly Agent always send me alerts daily of properties that fit my buyers criteria but she won't let me put the property under contract in my name, so that I can assign it to my end buyer. We ...
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Lessons Learned from a 34-Unit Rooming Housing Project with a Lease Option and Creative Financing!Hey BiggerPockets! I wanted to share the rooming house project I completed with creative financing, how the numbers wor...