Dan Barth
Tenant claiming mold present - Help!
Hey Guys,
I have a tenant in Philadelphia who a few months back mentioned that she feels more tired than usual and wanted to test for mold. It was very vague/general request, in which I gave her the okay to purchase ...
Vania Castillo
Diary of a Rehab. in Providence
Dear BP community: It is official! Through tax lien investing a 2 family house landed on my lap. Like the old adage says, "When life gives you lemons...Make lemonade" and that is what I'm trying to do here.Here is a ...
Yuriy Skripnichenko
How I got variance for duplex in Philadelphia aka re-zoning
This question seems to come up a lot on the BP forum.Here is the step-by-step instruction how I got variance for SFH zoning to be used as a duplex with the budget and time schedule 1)Zoning application. Fee is $25.00 ...
Isaac Pyle
19 or 20 Year Old Being a Landlord?
Hello BP Community!I am educating myself on REI and learning what it would take to pull something like this off. I see where some pieces would need to fall for me to begin down this path, but I am concerned that I wou...
Derek Smith
OK, next Step...Mentor Sherman Ragland
OK, I have been going it alone attempting to wholesale for about 3 months now and I have not made that first deal yet. I live about five minutes from DCREIA and its "Dean" Sherman Ragland lives in my development on t...
Erica Nagle
Don't trust our agent, what can we do?
First of all I want to say that we do have some fault in this situation. I'm not trying to play the innocent victim, we did some things wrong and have learned our lesson. But we aren't the only ones that did something...
Ray Jimenez
Raising Private Money FAILED
Hello BiggerPocket Family,I just wanted to present to you guys a package that I put together to raise private money for a deal that I was working on but unfortunately I failed. I just wanted to see if I did something ...
Account Closed
Finding a tenant seems like pooling teeth
Hey everyone. So I've had my condo listed online for a week, and out of all the people who've come in, I only have 1 potential tenant, but he hasn't submitted the application yet. Essentially, 80% of the inquiries n...
Jason Schmidt
what does your property management company do for you?
part of the appeal for going into real estate investing / landlording is to create passive income. to make enough in order to make it matter, i will need to possibly have 20 properties at some point. It seems to me ...
Herwin G.
Buyers' agents giving commission rebates?
Hey BP, a friend recently mentioned that there are some buyers' agents that offer commission rebates of 1% or so. And since the commission is already factored into sale price (as the seller pays the commissions) thoug...