I looked at a house today that is coming up for sheriff sale.  The neighbors came out and started  talking to me about the house.  They had been told by someone hired by the bank to mow the lawn to tell the buyer he i...

I recently purchased a fixer upper that I will use as a vacation home. I won't be there in the winter and want to protect my water pipes. The plan is to remove the water meter each fall, blow out the pipes with an ...

Hi all,I'm sharing this story in hopes others can learn from what I found to be a tough (and at times incredibly uncomfortable) situation, as well as looking for any insights as to how I could have handled this differ...

I live in a little (40K pop) city in southern Ontario, Canada that has a ton of brownfield in the middle of the city with a massive old train station (we're a train city with contamination problems). I've had a vision...

Received a $1M offer on a 16 unit building that I purchased back in March - leaving me with a nice profit.However, I am expecting 30% in short term capital gains between the state and federal and a prepayment penalty ...

Hi All,This is my first official post.  I've been researching & learning amazing things on BP. <3 The podcast. Thank you so much to everyone that gives back the wisdom that you've been imparted with. I would lo...

I have no PC comment!!!But we have commercial properties & that would be an interesting problem for us.Do we NNN it???https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/02/04/rain-tax-l...

By now you might have heard that a few financial institutions in the US and beyond have run into some difficulties..Somewhat counterintuitively the implosion of SVB bank and the downgraded risk of other regional and i...