All Forum Posts by: Scott Trench

Heads up - this post talks about "AirBnB" and "San Francisco".  You are about to draw in about 100 people that regularly monitor the internet to prevent you from housing people in your home via AirBnB.  Why are they so dedicated?  For the good of their community of course... definitely not some sort of agenda.

Some call that a "noble" cause.  Some call that none of their business.

Either way, know that San Francisco is particularly strict about short term rentals and there are some very "dedicated" bureaucrats out there looking to make things hard on you.

Make sure that you are licensed for short term rentals if you are looking to AirBnB in San Fran.  This article should help you understand what is and isn't legal:

http://time.com/3757094/san-francisco-airbnb-law/

Oh boy..

Hi Mike!  Welcome to BiggerPockets.  I hope that you find the site valuable and definitely would encourage you to finish out your profile and upload a picture!

Hey everyone!  I wanted to wish BiggerPockets' own @Hilary C. a happy birthday!  

If you get a chance, please wish her the same - she's the one that helps you all out with all the little bugs and glitches you have on the site, and she works tirelessly to make your experience on BP better every day!

Oh, and here's a picture with her yelling about something or other this morning ;)

Martin,

This has been suggested before.  While a valuable concept, we don't see this coming up in the short to medium term.

In the meantime, here are some great ways to network locally in order to meet investors local to your region:

1) go to www.biggerpockets.com/meet and search for investors near your zip code.

2) be sure to use keywords in your post including local city and state names (you used Akron and Cleveland, which is a great start) - investors are scheduling alerts for these keywords and will be more likely to see your post if you use them appropriately.

3) set up those keywords yourself and connect with people that invest in or are interested in your area.  The better you get to know local investors, the more likely you are to be able to find the answer to specific questions like this one!

Hope that helps!

 Hey so I checked it out for you - it looks like you may have disabled the chat somehow.  You can enable it by hovering the mouse over your picture in the top right of the NAV bar and clicking "enable chat"

 Have you checked in the top right corner?  If that's not there, let me know and I'll let the devs know!

@Ronald Perich

That's a rather effective way of making your point about poor site usability with Android devices..

@Robert Perry

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