Corey Dutton
The Perfect Storm: New Jersey Sees 400% Increase in Foreclosure Starts from 2011
Numbers were released in October that showed a 400% increase of foreclosures starts in New Jersey over 2011. With the destruction caused by Sandy coupled with an onslaught of foreclosures coming to market, 2013 will c...
Jason Insalaco
Future Los Angeles Multifamily Sales Onslaught/LA Retrofit Law
Owners of thousands of Los Angeles wooden apartment buildings at risk of collapse in a major earthquake will begin receiving retrofit orders as early as February 2016, according to the Los Angeles Times. The LA City ...
Brent Zande
What did you learn when you lost it all with investing?
I think its so much easier to learn from others mistakes than it is to learn from others successes. Failure seems more traceable, easier to see where something went wrong than where everything went right. The onslau...
Vincent D.
H&H Blitz in your neighborhood?
My investment zone is Indianapolis, Indiana. Since last year, and accelerating in aggressiveness this year, the Health and Hospital Dept has dispatched a veritable army of pawns to raise money for the county. As a l...
Josh Anderson
Small Town Retail Redevelopment
Hello BiggerPockets,I have a general question or brainstorming activity I would like to pose to the community. Shopko's closure announcement back in January will leave roughly 70 buildings vacant in just SD, MN, NE, N...
Brett Snodgrass
First quarter challenges?
Hey all - wondered if you all had experienced any challenges wholesaling this first quarter? Our numbers are down direct to seller, wondered if anyone was experiencing this same thing and if you all had strategies to ...
Chad Swinford
Should I evict or hope for the best?
I have an issue that I’m sure I’m not alone in. I need some help thinking through how I’m going to move forward with a tenant. For context...I’ve owned rentals for 15 years and currently have 10. With COVID, Indiana p...
Steve P.
Malicious Expanding Foam twice backs up sewer thousands in damages
I am the owner landlord of a duplex in which my tenant (he doesn't know I found his malice) took a can of expanding foam insulation with a long tiny tube and squirted it into the trap below the laundry room floor drai...
Anna Catron
FINANCING A CASH PURCHASE
This has been asked before, but I can't find it anywhere. We bought a duplex for $100k. Rehabbed it ($40k), it's worth $200k. QUESTION: DO WE wait until tenants are in place to finance it?QUESTION: Will most lenders...
Ed O.
What is with the awful guerrilla marketing from BP?
I've been a pro member for 3? maybe 4 years.... Recently, I've received an onslaught of BP solicitations. The first one, was a message from Mindy Jensen. Not knowing this person, I checked it. It was a sad, shameless ...