Hello team!We all hear the jokes on the Podcasts, but I've heard some "interesting" things about the market in Michigan, Detroit specifically. Anyone with boots on the ground and 1st hand knowledge? Can you confirm or...

In one podcast I listen to on investing they discuss the concept of "equity harvesting" on their properties. The idea is simple, as your tenants pay down the mortgage and the property (hopefully) increases in value th...

Bowing walls? Water seeping in............etc.
How the *** are folks creating houses with these issues?
I dont get it at all....

I find myself repeatedly compelled to speak up to temper long-distance or newbie expectations of this city in the BP forums. To this end, I've made a lot of less-than-stellar prognostications here about the economic f...

Hello BP Community!I am excited to be here and have learned a great deal so far reading endless blog posts. I am excited to begin interacting with those who are much smarter than I am. I love to learn! My name is Kevi...

I'm predicting Lakers in 5 over the Cavs.

Anyone else?

One of the things I LOVE about real estate investing is how optimistic, creative and cheery everyone is. Generally, you don't get a lot of excuse makers in this business. However, I know we all have really bad days an...

Hello all!  Just getting started to REI late in life (well...late relative to my young teen-20's).   Like many I've read about already, REI was something I never payed attention to throughout life other than thinking ...

I took the 18 page report released by Trump's committee yesterday and summarized it below.
 
I hope we can all see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not going to be as easy as turning the light switch ba...

A novice landlord in Baltimore city here. 
To make the long story short, my tenant on a month-to-month lease is not paying rent and refusing to communicate with me. I already sent this tenant a failure to pay rent no...