Hi everyone,I'm a mid-twenties engineer out of the SF Bay Area.I've been lurking the site for a few months as I've mulled the "Real Estate Option" - we're getting to that phase of the boom-bust cycle that I'm just not...

If you have cash, should you use it or is it better to use leverage if you can?  So far, I've almost exclusively used cash to build our small portfolio.  My goal for the year was to fully replace my current after tax ...

It's misleading as all hell.  It doesn't focus on the truly important elements of the underwriting.  And @Brandon Turner is not helping anything by continuing to talk about it on his webinars.[Note from Brandon: see m...

So I have read in many places and discussed with many attorneys about the 30 - 90 day anti - flip requirement for short sale acceptance.

However, has anyone ever bothered to question the banks legality for requiring ...

My goal is to buy 1 rental property this year. Tell me about your first purchase!
Where was it?
How did it go?
Do you still have it?
1 thing youwish you knew?

While cashflow is key to keep the property safely under control, I seem to find that the larger returns for our portfolio to date come from strategic growth of equity. My wife and I are still fairly small in our inves...

What is the plan when tenants can’t work and cannot make rent payments? It has already started for me.

It's not talking this time, though, if you've been paying attention, you know that I've been preaching this message for years...  Here's an email from this morning names and locations edited out):Hey Ben - Really enjo...

I've been on the Dave Ramsey bandwagon for the last several years. His advice definitely worked to get us out of debt and allow us to save a pile of cash. But as I look to get more into real estate investing, there's ...

It's my honest opinion that "Bob" Kiyosaki is nothing but a clown in the financial porn circus. Perhaps, I gave the climactic ending of my message ahead of time. Perhaps.After many references in the podcasts, I decide...