We have a two family home. We live on one floor and the other half is rented. The property is being sold for $1 million with a mortgage of about $300k. We're planning on doing a 1031/121 combo. The rental half is esse...

Happy Black Friday! Being new to landlording, I would appreciate your feedback. Our tenant move out 2 weeks ago. The home is in Fort Worth Texas. They left the property clean, but with minor damage. They installed sat...

Well, news flash on the Today show, number one tax cheats are contractors, second is landlords. They even have it down to geographic areas, sections of LA, Dallas, some other cities were named.

If you haven't droped...

Anyone have a favorite web based remodel estimator tool? ideally one that accounts for geographical location. Is it best to simply reach out to contractors? Looking for very rough numbers. 

 Is it best to sell some of my houses next year and reinvest via 1031 exchange into a more expensive property in an effort to avoid capex and as a side benefit, increase appreciation potential? Or perhaps reinvest in ...

Are we being Realistic?Are we being reasonable to think that when a tenant moves out that the rental home will be neat as pin and clean throughout including cabinet tops, behind refrigerators, top of door trims and wi...

My niece was a student at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. I have included the section of her lease that outlines how late fees are to be handled at the bottom of this post I'll do my best to explain what hap...

Hi BP Family I hope everyone is out there safe and taking care of others the best they can! So I have potential tenants that passed all qualifications and seem to be great people. They want to move in middle of month ...

A local heavy investor told me last night he received an email from Zillow saying starting May 1st only licensed agents can post for sale on Zillow.  Basically no more FSBO.  Has anyone else heard of this?  If this is...

We recently put our home up for sale and oops, it sold within a week (not yet closed). We've been thinking of moving out of the area for awhile to an area with more job opportunities (not currently employed, wife is r...