I currently own and live in one side of a duplex I picked up just over a year ago. I am anxious to purchase another. I am strongly considering cashing out my 401K in order to be able to afford the 20% down payment tha...

I keep coming back to NNN as being the best looking deals out there. Getting brokers to help in choice is impossible, and since deals are scattered all over the country, third party advise becomes inevitable. Putting ...

I am buying a duplex and inheriting a tenant that has been there for 4 years, a single mom. It seems she is usually late with rent payments but catches up within few months. She is otherwise good tenant and keep her u...

I recently ran across Biggerpockets and immediately became hooked. I’m writing because of a unique circumstance and I’m hoping to solicit some advice from more experienced folks on how to best deal with it.Recently, w...

Thank Donald Trump for me.

Since I've been on disability these past couple of years, I have been able to review my last deal, which I did as a result of something I read on Mr. Trumps website a co...

I have a rental in a lower income area that has about three quarters of the people living there are related or friends of some sort. This is a nice place to live except the new monsters next door. Next door a nice hom...

My mom had a stroke in April which has eliminated any possibility of her ever returning to her extremely stressful 7 job. She is still technically employed and earning an income while she still has sick hours, and she...

What did you do today? I spent time on Craigslist, Facebook and looking through the paper looking for deals.
I was supposed to go and look at (2) properties but the seller never called me back to finalize a time.
I...

Someone sent me this email so I wanted to post it less as much of the political spin as I could subtract as possible to get a sense for how much of it is accurate. Here are taxes that will be coming for 2011 accordin...