I attended a local REI meetup last night and the guest speaker was an auctioneer with 37 years of experience in RE investing. He was selling a strategy of buying properties on cheap because they were good for nothing ...

Greetings,So my simple question is when you sign a lease with a tenant, do you place yourself as the "Landlord" or do you place your LLC as the landlord?In my previous leases, I have stated my name as the Landlord, an...

Under the new legislation designed to help small businesses was a small add on that is now going to require landlords to issue 1099s to any contractor performing services like repairs over $600.

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I'm researching some interesting private lending deals, and I'm a little unclear how this particular piece works.  I'm going to speak to an attorney, of course, but I'm trying to prepare myself a little bit even for t...

I always hear folks saying Seattle is not landlord friendly, so I should not buy an investment property in Seattle. But reading up on the tenant/landlord rules, I don't really see any concerns. What is everybody worri...

Hi BP Community,I am about to place my first tenant and I used the $1 trial with RentRedi, so I went through their application process, which was relatively easy, streamlined, and I did like it.  However, now that I a...

This is just a minor vent session but I got my first taste of real world landlord work this past weekend. And not the good kind. Not the "retire by 40 and travel the world" kind but more of the "your tenant will try a...

I need a solution for managing real estate leads for my direct mail campaigns in a database. I need to be able to constantly upload new leads, names, and addresses. I want to be able to manage the duplicates. I need t...

 One popular question on BP is the question of "should I file for a LLC" or "Do I need one?"I definitely do not have that answer because everyones intentions, needs, and goals are different. But... I decided to file f...