Good morning everyone,First I want to thank you in advance for any help you can provide. I am a new landlord so I want to make sure I am following law when it comes to security deposits.I am renting out a room and pri...

Why would a bank or anyone take a second mortgage?  If things go bad wont the first lien holder  get everything?    The only thing I can think of is that the market value of the property hopefully  increases past the ...

So a house across the street is owned by an individual. His tenants that lived there before were a mess. We, as in the neighborhood, had issues with them on many occasions. We called the police multiple times due to l...

My current tenant wants to add their boyfriend to the lease. But upon looking at court records this person has multiple driving violations and charges of criminal trespassing. Would you pass on this potential tenant o...

Just curious, still learning the "ropes" here at BP, I have noticed that some of my favorite threads to follow seem to get to a certain level of responses then get moved tover to a private discussion.

questions:
1) W...

We are newer to the private lender world. We continue to get emails from people stating they are “private lenders” but how do you know if they are legit or not? It appears to be a scam, no business name, plain nondesc...

I own real estate outside of CA, both in the country and internationally but have chosen to rent in Hermosa Beach due to the high cost to buy a home in coastal southern California.The apartment complex I live in was b...

thought you guys might find this interesting. AS some people tru and use this data

Today we were greeted with the following "information" in the news cycle.
"According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure notices were filed in...

So I'm blessed to work in a profession where I am in constant contact with higher earning people.  I recently had a discussion with a collegue that is unhappy with his return in the markets (shocker...) and he knows t...

On the  tenants last day she was cleaning out her stuff and I saw some obvious damage to the hard wood floors. I called my favorite flooring guy and he ended up renting the place! Zero vacancy days and now I have a te...