I'm in Canada. Cheapest places in the city I live in go for about 170k, and you couldn't get them for much lower than that (no distressed housing of any sort). Now, what you get for that 170k isn't much (an old tow...

I have an STR I manage at a distance and have a property mgmt company handling the day to day.  They have done a great job managing guests and the STR platforms to maximize bookings but when we returned to stay a few ...

I have a handful of single family rental properties in Kansas City.  I was reviewing my monthly expenses with @Ian Reeves the other day and he mentioned that my insurance premium is way too high.  I called my insuranc...

I'm interested in utilizing the BRRRR strategy in these markets.  What are the downsides, and are they enough that they should dissuade me from trying?  "PS, one last example. There is a profound difference between K...

Sorry, I just noticed I typoed motivationals in the title of the thread..

Hi! So I listened to a webinar guru guy a few weeks ago, one of his freebies. I have already studied a lot of the approaches he had mentioned,...

New guy here - 34 years old and I've been working as a Mechanical Engineer for 12 years.  Plan to continue for another 20-ish.  Just now starting to learn about REI and have been trying for a year or so to just look a...

Would you open our envelope (picture in comments) and read our letter? How can we make it stronger? What type of follow up would you send? How soon after the original letters?We've read a lot about "yellow letters" an...

building on the post that recently described the new laws in colorado springs, i came across this one which on the surface seems would decimate the market in CO and most all ski communities would see a flood of sales ...

Let's face it, we live in a violent society. The average middle-class American doesn't see it, but those of us that invest in lower income neighborhoods see it every day. For an average, honest, middle-class or uppe...

I recently bought my first rental property, did some renovations, and now I'm trying to rent it out.

We started advertising March 1st on Craigslist and Postlets. We’ve had 8 people contact us, five of which...