BP,A person I will name, Bob, once lived in Hawaii and wants to purchase a Hawaiian property for the sole purpose of having a vacation home for his family and extended family. In most situations, this is a thoughtful ...

I'm looking into the short term rental market in Durham, NC and am wondering if anyone is doing the same thing?  I grew up 30 mins from downtown Durham.  I have family in the area still and would like to balance havin...

Hello BP,Does anyone have any experience demolishing and rebuilding landscape retaining walls? I have a wall that needs to be taken down and rebuilt (or graded) and I'm wondering what my options are in terms of puttin...

Vacation Rentals have been around for decades now. It has just been since 2008 that they have really started to gain media exposure because of Airbnb. My colleagues and I have seen a shift that is already happening in...

What are you doing to give back to the cities you make money in? I was proud to have a group of 10 local investors I know join early last Saturday morning to paint over graffiti in the East Lake neighborhood (all BP m...

When i started investing 14 years ago while living overseas, here is what I imagined in my head. A PM will collect rent, have periodic friendly interactions with my tenants, handle maintenance issues the same way they...

I remember reading this article when longtime pillar of the BP community, Brandon Hall wrote it a few years ago. I'll let the article speak for itself, but if I were to distill it down to a sentence: When it comes to ...

Looking for advice on how to select/choose a QI during a 1031 exchange? For those of you that have successfully completed a 1031, did you use a 1031 company or did you work directly with a QI or did you work with bank...