How to Be a Profitable Landlord
About eight years ago, if you were a Bargaineering reader, you were treated to a series of posts in which I talked about the home buying process. Until that point, it was one of the biggest financial decisions of our life and it looks like we’re going to take the next step.
We’ve been looking at homes on and off for fun the last few months, going to open houses for homes we liked, and just being casual. This past weekend, we started looking at them more seriously with our realtor friend (Christina Elliott at her firm Cornerstone Real Estate) and I was wondering what we could do with the home we’re in now.
One of the options is to keep this house and rent it out. So, I turned to my friend Josh, who happens to run BiggerPockets, easily one of the largest real estate investment sites out there. We talked about it briefly on the phone but I thought it would be so much better if he wrote a guest post about it. So here it is!
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