For those of you who actively choose to invest in high crime areas, what do you make sure to factor into your numbers? -higher vacancy-higher possibility of turnover -hiring a property management company with skill an...

Should we refom health care? Do we leave thing the way they are? Do we pay $800 co-pay per month and then bail out banks? Are we listening to our president or do we disagree just to disagree? Please share how you feel.

I'm in Houston and work as an attorney with only energy clients and my business has been severely impacted.  I've also seen the real estate market locally cool over the past 6 months and the trend is down.How are thin...

I just purchased my very first home in March. It’s a two-family and I fixed up the downstairs and moved in this April. Upstairs tenant has been there for 4years with various sketchy roommates. He has refused to prov...

I just filed my taxes for 2018, and had to pay in a significant amount of money. This got me exploring some of the details of my situation and  trying to figure out some of the math and the logic for certain things. I...

Hello all. I've gone through so much turmoil in life . . .including beating cancer 3X . . .so to come to this point as I finally have been granted a 3rd chance at life is frustrating to say the least. My offer was acc...

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Investors and homeowners, let us know: What do you wish you would have known when you bought your first property?
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I am here trying to get started on the path of real estate and am finding that everyone I talk to (minus people on BP) are almost trying to push me away from the real estate world. Comments like "being a landlord suck...

Can someone please explain to me how, in 2018, we haven't come up with a better process for:1. The real estate title systemBetween title searches and title insurance - the real estate title system is a $15 BILLION com...