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While helping someone find a tenant for their property I encountered a dilemma. A prospect tenant offered to pay 2 months rent deposit plus 12 months of rent upfront due to the fact that I was un...

Hi Everyone - New member here. Any good places to get a HELOC on a multi-family house that I have?  We have a significant amount of equity in the property and would like to use the equity for a down payment on another...

I currently manage 125 units in Janesville and Beloit WI. Many of our tenants are elderly, or lower income. Also, many of them do not have bank accounts. These are the types of people I typically house in my units. Ho...

I have several questions related to paying for inspections when buying large apartments (100+ units)1. ) Where does the money come from to pay for the thousands of dollars these inspections cost? Does it come out of t...

I've noticed something of a disturbing trend on this forum.  There really seem to be many people who earnestly believe that the language of their lease is always and forever controlling.  "Just do ___x____, it's in th...

The train is finally leaving the station; I have joined BiggerPockets!! For months I have been educating myself about real estate and home ownership by reading several publications, attending seminars and taking a rea...

I follow a lot of post on this forum about gathering information on motivated sellers and using it for prospecting. The big sites are mentioned  (List Source, Zillow, Attom Data API) for sourcing house data. It seems ...

I have a motivated seller that has little equity in her home but I'm wondering what would be the best way to explain the type of deal I think would be best, a subject to existing financing. She doesn't want to be resp...

I am 17 years old and trying to do everything possible to get ready to jump into REI by age 20 with a small multi family property (3-4 units) in my college town that would allow me to house-hack. My main problem is pr...

My wife and I just closed on our first duplex property that we intend to house hack.  The neighborhood is our ideal location personally since it's where we grew up and both our families live in the neighborhood. With ...