Has anyone done a pad split in Cleveland Ohio? I am thinking about buying this 8 bedroom 3 bathroom house in Cle. There is a good amount of square footage and it is a single family house. Instead of converting into a ...

Ok so it seems EVERYONE is making renting to sec 8 MUCH more complicated than it needs to be, not sure why. Maybe some guru is selling courses and telling everyone it is. Well, it's not. So here are answer to most of ...

One trick we use sometime is take a water hose from the back of a washer machine... I carry one in my trunk (With a plunger). Go to the neighbor and offer them $10 cash to run a hose from their outside faucet to your ...

Maybe its just me.....  Being in the Real Estate Business for 20 plus years, I am started to see some similarities of the last bubble.  Now I am not saying we are in a bubble.  I don't know.  They are a lot of factors...

Mine is foreclosure filings and REO sales.Let me explain.In 2007, I was working on 20 shortsales and a business partner of mine was working on about 40 shortsale cases. None of the shortsales were accepted. This was u...

I'm looking for a little advice on my first direct mail campaign. I've sent 16,000 letters and gotten no deals.I sent letters to people with equity who are absentee owners who have owned the house more than 4 years or...

Whats up BiggerPockets!I have a question for you all:Why do you invest in real estate?I want to hear from all the investors on here and learn what is the biggest driver for real estate investors.  I think one of the b...

Hello BP peeps!My husband and I closed on our first SFH in a B+ neighborhood at the end of June.  After a couple of weekends of hard work to get it where we wanted, we listed the property on Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, C...

Hey BP guys, I'm just wondering what everyone else is doing when trying to find a good deal to FLIP or BRRRR a property..  I follow exactly the rules that @Brandon Turner suggests which is the %70 rule or even %75 rul...