What is your experience buying already running property management companies? 

Bigger Pockets is all about finding the best investment properties with sufficient cash flow. While I'm good with all that, I'm interested in the other monetary investment possibilities. I understand the idea behind a...

If you had 100K to invest in real estate what would you do with it? Would you loan it out to another investor? Spend it all on farming? Buy a small home for cash? Put a down payment on a multi-family?  I'm curious wha...

As a property manager, one of the crucial and multifaceted responsibilities is ensuring that landlords have reliable tenants who will treat their property with respect, maintain it in good condition, and pay rent cons...

Fellow BP'ers, I need some advice on which direction I should go from here.  For the past year I have been kicking it in high gear in my personal finances by building up my credit in order to get conventional loans on...

Hello BP, I am getting ever closer to house hacking my first small multi on an FHA loan and have a quick question - We plan on buying with an FHA 3.5% loan, 30 year. I know this comes with two mortgage insurance premi...

Hi all, I have a question regarding value of Multifamily. As I understand one use cap-rate to value a multifamily property and not comps. So, I wonder how does an up market, impact multifamily values. Is it just high ...

Let's test the waters here.  I'm looking at a mom and pop cafe that has a cap rate of 8%.  It's a first floor retail condo in a downtown D.C., but in the neighborhood section not the business district where offices ar...

Title says it all. Since I am starting out, I am just curious about how much you guys spend on renovations or if there is a rule of thumb? I want to calculate it as a percentage of the purchase price that I can apply ...

I often tell people to not get sucked into the "cheapest" hard money lender; i.e. that it's not always the best deal for you or for the situation. I think a real life scenario might get the point across better. I ...