My name is Blayne Dreier. I'm a software developer in Austin, TX and a novice at real estate investing - I just acquired my first duplex. My current strategy is to buy and hold to create passive income, but I'm handy ...

Recently I've seen a massive increase of homeowners rolling up their sleeves and taking on DIY projects either on their primary homes or on their rental properties. Maybe money is tight, maybe it is the summer and peo...

We have a relatively small mortgage with a relatively high 15yr pmt.  We are 9 years in. 
We were considering doing cash-out refi's on 3 residential rentals to pull out about $300k to beef up our opportunity fund.  
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Hello everyone!

I've been lurking around here for quite a while and enjoy reading through the forums.

I have had my real estate license in Michigan for 3 1/2 years and mostly just manage and handle the transactions ...

Hi BP!  My name is Jon and I am very new to the real estate investing industry and community.  I have just started listening to the BP podcasts about two weeks ago, but have been listening for about 5 hours a day on a...

Hi Everyone! So excited to be here!I'm located in upstate NY and starting out as a investors agent. Looking forward! 

Hello new community!  My name is John Heck and I stumbled upon this website while researching a popular mentor program that was highly debated here.  I signed up and began reading the starter section and enjoyed it ve...

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Oklahoma City.

Purchase price: $135,000

Cash invested: $30,000

Bought off-market before I had much experience. Spent a lot of tim...

So I did a thing today. I quit my 9-5 job on the spot, no warning. No back up plan. And no money (well, I have $60 bucks). Now, before you call me crazy, hear me out. The job sucked. It was the most stressful, mind nu...

I like to be proactive on some maintenance issues . So today was sewer snaking day . A full 10 hours of running the sewer snake down 7 different sewer lines . Some may ask why ?  But I have found that if I do this onc...