I'm ready to buy my first duplex. In our market I can buy a habitable duplex in a low income urban market for 30k. Rents are aprox $500/unit but will likely be low income urban or section 8 tenants. The ROI opportu...

Hi everyone,I just passed my Illinois broker's test a week ago and I recently joined KW. I have a FT job at a  bank but I'm planning on devoting at least 40-50 hours a week to my real estate career.Can anyone give me ...

I'm looking at a few properties in Phoenix. Can't seem to find anything that yields greater than 4-5 percent return. Would you be ok with that return? Assume down payment is 25%-30%.

Hi BP family,

Please help me understand, why using an agent in the deal makes sense?

I have been flipping apartments for the past few years. Now I got a job as a real estate agent in a small local real estate compan...

I went to my first ever tax lien auction on May 20, in Franklin County, Tennessee (my home county).  TN is a "hybrid" state -- if you win the auction, you get a first lien on the property, and if it's not redeemed wit...

My wife's employer offers what seems a good retirement plant. If she contributes to her 401k/Roth IRA 3% of her basic salary, the employer will contribute the same 3%, plus an additional 1% of her basic pay. For examp...

I own several rental properties all single family homes and considering another. However, I want to expand my real estate experience by trying a flip. My strategy is to purchase a foreclosure at our County Court Hou...

At a private fund raiser ( Bush was secretly video taped on a cell phone ) Bush JOKES about Wall Street and the housing meltdown. The video is now on the internet.

He really sounds DRUNK him self!

http://news.bbc.co...

Out of the three main ways to invest ( wholesaling, flipping, and buy-and-hold)  it seems obvious to me that flipping is by far the most risky strategy.  This not only comes from personal experience but from commonsen...

For those contemplating alternate investments, I highly recommend considering hard money lending. I started in 2012 with little knowledge or information. At that time we didn't have Dodd-Frank to be concerned with. Fo...