For those of you who actively choose to invest in high crime areas, what do you make sure to factor into your numbers? -higher vacancy-higher possibility of turnover -hiring a property management company with skill an...

I spend a bit of time reading and contributing to different forums...  Real Estate, FIRE/Early Retirement, Sailing, Overlanding - and every time I come here to BP I'm left wondering why the discussions/goals I see on ...

I might be selling a website and will have around $700k to invest. I'm not an active real estate investor but I've been learning about it over the past few years. If I sell this website I will be getting a lump sum an...

My girlfriend and I live in a house (with a conventional mortgage) that we don't wish to move out of. I want to get into rentals, but don't yet have the capital to put %20 down on a sfr in my area. I do however have t...

I've been obsessed the past decade on trying to understand why some people become financially free, while the majority of the population is living paycheck to paycheck.I just launched a book called Baby Money Soldiers...

I don't quite understand the american ideal sometimes; now here i go. i'm starting this because it was request, i understand we all come from different places and look at the same situations differently but please no ...

So for the last year or so, I have been thinking more about physical health. I’ll be 50 in less than a year. Overall I do not personally know any active, long-term investors that actually smoke. Maybe they are there I...

Some of Miami's condos are like 4 times more in value than they were in 2009IN Asuncion (Paraguay ) real estate prices are 5 times higher  than in 2010 (500%!!!)I am just looking to buy in a Market where prices are go...

When I was a kid, I would look at the cars as they would drive down the road.  All of the cool cars I would either think to myself or ever say aloud to myself, "That's my car."  And when I was asked how much money I w...