BackgroundIn 2010 I bought a bank owned 3 bed 2.5 bath single family property using an FHA loan which required a 5% down payment. The purchase price was $73K so this equated to approximately $3,700 out of pocket.  Dur...

Real estate guys recently had a podcast that was pretty interesting about targeting the retiring baby boomer demographics: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://tra...The long story short, they have homes, an...

Hi All,Long time lurker here on the forums and with the help from all you folks, I finally made my first step in real-estate investing and got my first house under contract!My question is regarding the second round of...

Hello fellow BP members!  I came across BP just 2 weeks ago after stumbling across Podcast 197 with Chris Heeren. Wow, what an eye opener! Since then, we have attended 2 trustee auctions, a couple BP webinars and list...

I'm new to REI and targeting either two fourplexes or one small apartment building out of state as my first buy and hold properties? Is a 6-8 unit property better to help me scale and grow the business faster to event...

For all of you STR owners out there, does anyone share my concern that AirBNB's policies are increasingly becoming too problematic? 
My STRs are marketed toward the middle class, as opposed to really high end. I want...

In the past all of my direct mail has been to high equity Absentee Owners. I started with yellow letters but found that Postcards really work best to reduce tire kickers and promote motivation.

I am trying a...

A Florida tenant has been one of those nightmare tenants. I acquired the unit with them in it, but I asked them to move right away, and they asked if they could stay one more month, this went on for 8 months. I needed...

I received a nice looking Fedex envelop this morning from a TX law firm called holttollett. They said I didn't pay my HOA fee and had become a defendant. As a result, my $290 HOA which was due Jan 2023has turned in to...

[Disclaimer: This is an apolitical post, I'm a moderate of neither the Republican nor the Democratic party.]What do people think regarding the "Renter's Bill of Rights" proposed by Biden? It's yet to be solidified, bu...