My name is Anil. I recently moved to Maryland from Florida (where real estate was really cheap) for a new job two years ago. I purchased my first rental property in central Florida at the start of 2012.

I a...

Lately I have seen a number of posts from what I consider some of our most respected posters on the board using standard procedures to calculate returns. One of the calculations that happens frequently is that someon...

In the range of your market rent, where do you like to fall? In my experience in real estate, I enjoy falling anywhere from the middle to even the low end of what our market/area will allow. I prefer picking from many...

My husband Michael and I want to jump back into RE investing, here in Austin, TX. We have previous experience having owned a duplex in Boston for 16 years which we house-hacked, rented long term, Airbnb'ed, converted ...

I'm working through a broker that does all the underwriting/paperwork/recordings/foreclosure (if need be), where I only need to fund the transaction acting as the private lender on the note & deed of trust.

I pe...

I'm in a dilemma and looking for advice, I want to house hack when I move to Portland and have been looking at residential condos, condos, single-family, and multi-family ranging around 250K. But I also need a student...

Hello BP community! This is my first post, so set your expectations low! Here goes ...Rather than save my way to down payments using my W-2 income, it is easy to imagine how using private loans could accelerate my REI...

Does anyone have any experience allowing tenants to have snakes or geckos as pets? 
I have a tenant applying to live at one of my properties with a snake and a gecko. I allow pets, but typically my tenants have cats ...

Homepath contract in hand... so happy.  I want this to be my dream home. Finally got 1 contractor to come in and say "sorry, you'll need 200K to renovate this house".  The next contractor wouldn't even come look. He j...

Has anyone figured out a cheaper alternative to Cash for Keys. Looking for options that cost no more than $200...