Finally pulled the trigger on my first investment property after a 5-month search. The search originally started in Tallahassee, FL; went to Detroit and finally landed in Cleveland. In Tallahassee, the seller and I co...

Hi Savvy Folks! We have some real estate experience - home purchases & managing rentals. We're interested in a primary residence home purchase using a RE attorney and hiring a buyer's RE on an hourly basis. Does a...

Has anyone talked to these guys?  Peter Vekselman and Joe McCall?I’m always interested in ways I can plug holes in my business and farm out the things that I am not best at.  So I looked into Peter Vekselman and Joe M...

They would be an absolute except a few people get lucky and put everything they have into a rental property and nothing goes wrong for a year or two, giving them time to build up cash reserves.  Then again a few peopl...

First of all, wasn't that catchy? Ok so here's my situation and I'm hoping to get a myriad of opinions knowing full well there might not be one right answer.I'm 26, singleI live in Los AngelesMake 55k a year before ta...

I have owned my restaurant for 23 years, and the passion for the business dissolved back in 2008. The economy tanked and I just had my fourth child. I wanted to have more family time and a more flexible work schedul...

I keep reading people here saying  "Your rental properties are a business" as a precursor to  some inflexible dogma about sticking to the letter of agreements and pursuance of remedies for breaches. Let me point out ...

Hey!I wanted to start this thread to get some insight as to what I should do about approaching that point that so many starting out do - The point when the fire to invest starts to dwindle as you approach information ...

Hello All, 
I am a first-time homebuyer looking to take advantage of an FHA loan for my first multi-family property. I've been educating myself through BiggerPockets podcasts, reading forum threads, and speaking with...

I want to bounce my situation off of any of you in the BP community that are willing to read it and give an opinion. I became interested in REI two years ago this month, when I found BP and read Rich Dad. Over the fir...