Hello all, I want to become a hard money investor. What do I need to get started? What’s the going rate, what should I charge? Thanks in Advance.

I was thinking about getting my license to become a loan originator. Its only 4 days worth of class time and it costs around $300.
With this I could also do loan originations for other people and charge a fee.

Do yo...

I'm sure all the "flippers" out there read the subject and said, "That's not true!". I would say it all depends. The reason I'm writing this is because as I was speaking with a "short sale expert", she informed me t...

I just heard on the news that real estate prices are dropping like crazy in Puerto Rico due to the state of the local economy. Wondering if that's a good opportunity to start investing there. Anyone on BP currently in...

Hi all -I'm sure there are all sorts of partnership arrangement options but wanted to get your thoughts on this one.  I have a friend who lives in another state that wants to partner on multifamily deals.  He is going...

Hey everyone,Last year, I started looking at multifamily property in Oakland to house hack so I could live cheaply / free while building equity. While the cash flow and numbers can work with the right property, I thin...

My husband and I are really interested in getting into real estate, every year that passes without us acquiring a property feels like we're falling behind. We're financially very stable, we bring in 400-600k annually ...

Hello BP,    I'm looking to build a spec home on a piece of land I own in a relatively affluent Bay Area neighborhood. I'm negotiating with a prospective partner who is an experienced developer/RE Agent in the area.  ...

I'm curious to know if it is possible to use a 1031 Exchange to go from a non-owner occupied multi-family to an owner occupied multi-family. Are there rules prohibiting that?

OK so we bought our 1st rental property...  spent about 10 months of hard work and sweat to completely gut it and put it back into great shape on our own.  Got our tenant and she had a good background check, a job, pr...