Hey everyone,I live in Silicon Valley, which means I really need to look at investing out of my home state.  My dad lives in Phoenix, which is a growing market, and it seems like it could be a good place to start.  Th...

Trying to find an article about putting each rental property into a separate LLCs or putting a group of rental properties into one LLC.Just looking for pros/cons of each approach.  I've heard there are differing opini...

Where do gurus come up with these real estate investing tools they use to do all the work an investor would do themselves? I get emails all the time from gurus inviting me to come to some webinar talking about an awes...

About 6 months ago I reached out to my property manager in writing and ask them to raise rents on all my properties by $25.  I reminded them to do this about a month before each lease renewed.   When I got my lease re...

We are under contract on a side by side duplex near our hometown in Ohio. We just found out that we are inheriting the sweetest 80 year old tenant who has lived in the place for 20 years. Market rent is $950+. This li...

I will preface this by saying this is 100% a self inflicted wound that in all honesty did know know was happening. I am an investor with two other "good old boys" who still believe in handshakes and verbal agreements....

The NAR settled all of their lawsuits for $418 million today. Lots of stuff to dig through in regards to all of it, but the biggest takeaway and change to the industry is that fact that buyer agent commission can no l...

Hi All, Wanted to start a discussion on peoples outlook on the real estate market and the economy in general. I know it is a controversial topic but I have not seen many discussions on BiggerPocket on this topic and I...

I'm curious what investors are or aren't doing in relation to the impending market crash a lot of people (smarter than me) are saying will happen in the next 2'ish years. I'm selling a house in the next few months and...

I haven't been doing this as long as some of the big time investors here.  But I've had a pretty interesting run over the last 20 years.  And I'm just wondering if anybody else is seeing the same thing.  I started in ...