Made a reservation last year on AirBnB to visit family in California. It had five 5-star ratings (I only later realized they were all recent which should have been a red flag) Two months later we showed up to check in...
Hi BPers 👋I'm calling creative minds here to bounce ideas around a house hacking opportunity.The building: San Francisco based 3 unit building. I'm renting out one unit and the owner does not live on site.The opportu...
What better time of the year than to think about giving back to those less fortunate. Even though I currently do not have any investments in RE (prepping to change that) I am looking for a new Charity, especially thos...
I like to donate a portion of my profits from a deal to a neighborhood charity in the property's area. I recently bought several properties in my self directed IRA. Is there a way I can still make these donations? It...
What percentage of your gross yearly income do you donate to charity? also with what frequency (monthly, etcc) ?
Is it possible to draw equity from a rental property? I have a rental that I have a substantial amount of equity in and would like to use the equity to fund another project. How difficult is it to use equity from a re...
This morning I stopped to here a story, part of a series (I think) that NPR's Morning Edition is doing on housing. "Welcome To Rent Court, Where Tenants Can Face A Tenuous Fate" and of course it sides with the tenant....
I've been following the BiggerPockets podcast for a month or so. Bought my first rental investment in August on the Oregon Coast, a duplex near my main 'residence.' I have been a shorter term consultant in internati...
This year has been hard in a lot of ways, but in other ways we've been very lucky. Our business did comparatively well throughout the shutdowns, and in terms of wealth building activities this has been our best year y...
We want to find clever ways to reward tenants in our latest property. Basically, things we will do for tenants to incentivize them to stay instead of looking elsewhere. There's obviously price competition, curb appeal...