Good morning! I have a rental property (townhouse), i plan on buying more, but i am currently in the process of closing on a house that will be my personal residence. Should i get a revocable living trust for my perso...

I am new to investing and am building new rental houses. The new units are about 1700 sq ft with one and two garages and have 3-4 bedrooms, 2 baths and will rent for about $1300 - $1400 per month.  I'd like to know ev...

You cant make this stuff up…In July, an applicant contacted me about renting an upscale home I own in NY. 720 credit and no evictions, he paid the realtor with a check and made the deposit and first months rent throu...

Hello, I live in Japan with my Japanese husband and two children. I am from America. My husband and I first started thinking of investing in real estate over 10 years ago when we first got married. I'm embarrass...

I'm relatively new to REI, but have had a single rental property for ~3 years that does well. My father on the other hand, has ~20+ properties and tracks everything manually in a spreadsheet. While I could likely writ...

Hi everyone! First post to BP forums after learning from the sidelines the last few months.

Ok right to it. I haven’t seen or heard really of anyone mixing two types of financing on one deal. Is this common/ethical/...

Hello BP,Hope you can help me out.  If I was to move back into my rental home for 2 out of the last 5 years I would not need to pay capital gains.  My question is what if I depreciated my rental for 15  years and then...

     Ok, so my girlfriend's dad just passed in Kansas City.  He owned a home jointly with his 86 year old mother (or so we thought).  First of all, he had no will.  Overall he didn't have much anyway, so not too big o...

OK, this might be a total jerk thing to do, so I thought I'd run it by you guys first. I have a Section 8 tenant who has pretty much been the ideal tenant who keeps his place very clean and always pays his rent on tim...

First of all -- I apologize if this is in the wrong section.

I recently purchased a house, hoping to rent out the rooms for a while, to kill two birds with one stone -- start on the path to being a RE investo...