S. Perry
Walk me through a maintenance check/rental inspection
I need some guidance involving what to do for a maintenance check. Tenants have been in the home for 1 year (2 yr lease). We have been in the home on a few occasions for various issues but have never done a specific c...
Joshua Martin
Strategy ~ Are you crazy to buy in good areas right now?
Hey gang, So this is a general question that I thought I'd get some interesting feedback on (or maybe none), and it's one that some will interpret as procrastination or over-analysis, and I'll preemptively say it's n...
Sean Griffin
6 years, 4 homes, and financial freedom at age 33
Aspiring real-estate mogul, and self-made millionaire, my story:At age 27, I bought my first home in Seattle on Feb 2012 at the beginning of the real estate rebound from ‘08. Put 3% down on a beautiful 3 bed 2.5 bath ...
Tony S.
Breaking out into the SFR world as a young busy attorney saddled with student loans?
Hello BiggerPockets!I'm a 26 y/o second-year busy corporate lawyer in Charlotte, NC with a goal to invest in at least 10 cash-flowing buy/hold SFR properties in the next 5 years. I'd like to net at least $200 per SFR...
Account Closed
How to learn about Non-Performing Notes and buy my first one?
Hi all,I have followed Bigger Pockets for a few years now, starting out with my first SFR rental in 2014 (5 hours drive from my location, which is VERY expensive to invest in) then moving on to some Multifamily proper...
John Bapst
Are We at the Top of the Market??
What is going on in Southern Maine? Over the last 12-18 months, feel like valuations have gone hyperbolic. Looking at cap rates on some 2-4 units and there is actually stuff with a 3-handle on it! Most seem to be ~4.0...
Ted Schmidt
Handling inbound calls from mailing campaigns
I would like to get an idea about how you handle incoming calls from people responding to postal mailings or other marketing methods.
What do you say when someone calls? How do you get them from information ...
Stephanie Lella
Pit bulls in low income housing
Does anyone have experience allowing pit bulls or other "dangerous breeds" in low income housing units? What is the liability to the home owner if I put a specific clause in the lease regarding pet behavior and owner ...
Wendy Li
Options? tenant legally cultivating marijuana
Our property is in MI but we live in CA so it's hard to keep track of the tenant. We recently visited and discovered that they have been cultivating marijuana in the basement. They were growing and dispensing mariju...
Dmitri K.
Cleveland Investors, what is your real-live vacancy rate?
So i see a lot of people ask what to use when estimating a vacancy rate or a cap expense rate. And a lot of times on pro-forma sheets a vacancy is listed at 5%. I just can't comprehend how that is a realistic number f...