I'm curious to hear people's thoughts. I would like to get into a lake house in northern Minnesota as a vacation rental and I'm currently looking at two options that are both about the same price and I want to know wh...

Hello Everyone,My name is Jake and I'm a 21 year old currently going to school for software engineering in the Milwaukee area. I have one more year of school left, and I really want to get into real estate once I grad...

If I roll $100k into a SDIRA, can I buy a $50k house for cash out of that account and have the rental income put directly in the account? I realize this is probably much more complicated in reality, but I thought...

Hello all, My name is Mike and I am new to BP and brand new into the world of REI. I am so excited to join this amazing community of bright, helpful individuals! I have recently finished a vacation home located in Bet...

I wanted to share this step by step journey that we just went through to acquire this 150 unit apartment in Orange Texas: and the lessons learned at each step1) We had to loose quite a bit of deals.  Found  a deal in ...

Hello BP,My brother wants to be a private lender to my real estate business and wants to use his Roth IRA money to do it. He lives in Des Moines, so I was trying to find him a local self directed IRA for him to roll ...

Hi I'm Mark.

I'm a former real estate appraiser, full time stay-at-home dad while my wife completes a grueling post-graduate training program in Greenville, SC. I consider myself a green, wet-behind-the ears...

So I rented one of my properties to a lovely family. Did my due diligence etc...They were coming off of Section 8, but I did verify their income etc.( income increased)... Oops, husband lost his job 1 month into the l...

hello new (first message) hope i'm posting in the correct place, apologies if not.So here's my situation...I'm 35 (only child/no kids, renter, total debt 60K -primary student loans, good job in tech) I have small fami...

Maybe someone can clear this up for me a little bit.  I've been doing some searching but it's still a little hazy.  There is a property I'm interested in that has been abandoned for a few years now.  A childhood frien...