When I started out landlording I would often waive late fees, trying to be a nice guy and thought I was helping out my tenants. After a while I discovered that this set a terrible precedent with the tenants. To the...

Why do you hold some investments, and flip others? What factors influence your decision and how do you know if you’re making the right choice?

I started my real estate learning about 2 months ago and though I'm about a year from buying my first deal at this point I have talked to mentors, read numerous forum posts, and books and have made a more concrete pla...

Investment Info:
Package of 9 single-family houses. Six of the houses are in KCMO and the other three are in KCK.
Purchase Price:
$432,000
What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?
The deal fit...

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $326,000

Cash invested: $100,000

Converted the detached 2 car garage into an ADU, doing most of the work mys...

Hello everyone at BP's!     My name is Jason Sowell (Soul). I'm pretty much a new investor living in Columbia MO.  I travel back and forth to Evansville IN, hometown to my wife Elaine.  I started in real estate in Eva...

Hello BP community,

I graduated from college in 2016 with a BS in psychology and a minor in business. I just moved to SE Portland, OR a couple weeks ago and I am currently looking for a job that is related to real e...

Cash Flow Your Way to Early Retirement! This is the Boise-based engineer and aspiring retiree’s perspective. It includes the "golden nuggets" Shane Trapp picked up along the way, and went on to share with Avid Inves...

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $307,500

Cash invested: $70,000

I purchased for just over 300K, extremely neglected piece of real estate, wi...

Hello, I have been doing my taxes for years but my portfolio is growing and I need to get help.  I have spent a lot of money on a rehab this year and I'm not sure of how to deduct everything.  I'm also in the middle o...