Together my husband and I have almost $200k in student loans with a significant portion of them being at 6% interest. 53k of that is at 6.8% and 7.2%. We currently live and work in Oregon and are interested in getting...

Lenders are getting more and more aggressive in their underwriting  - read this...I am researching a project and reached out to a friend who is working for a big lender.  He confirmed - they are approving stuff that m...

Please anyone with experience of buying foreclosures could you help with advice in this situation?I bought SFH in March at foreclosure auction and got certificate of title on this property. Several days ago I started ...

Hi I'm doing a rehab and pulled out walls of a load bearing hallway to combine two bedrooms to a master suite. Problem is a few things, the floor upstairs feels like a trampoline because the old owner who had built th...

I saw a perscope by Cardone titled "Real Estate Warning". His attitude is that everything is priced to perfection, which never happens. For an ever-happy Cardone, his scope is quite ominous...If you tell me where you ...

First of all, I really do appreciate all the helpful guides and discussions on here to help educate a new REI such as myself.We can all invision the statement "It is better to purchase 5 properties at 20% down, and fi...

Although I'm not a big fan of using the Capitalization (Cap) Rate to analyze a property, it is a number used by many investors as a quick one-dimensional metric.  It is also one that is more commonly used in the comme...

Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask this, but in the most innocent way possible I am curious as to how people who have quit their jobs in order to pursue investing as a full time gig make money. Basically anythi...

I have spent the past 6 months or so educating myself on REI as much as possible primarily here on BP by listening to countless podcasts, posting tons on the forums, analyzing hypothetical deals, networking with other...

Has anyone ever read these books (volume I and II)? In it, the guy talks about his strategy for buying and renting out over 300 single family homes.

For the first property, he started off with around $28,000 or so f...