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Don't blame everything on interest rates - It's because wages haven't kept pace
My wife and I bought our first house in Seattle in 1986 for $78,000. It was in a safe, desired neighborhood, post card view of downtown,...
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Hi everyone, I live in California and have been meeting a lot of investors who prefer to invest out of state due to California being so expensive as well as the aggressive tenant protection laws we have here. I have h...
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Just wondering from anyone with experience in SD mf/apartment market what challenges or benefits you've had. I know California isn't the most landlord friendly state, and it's obviously a more expensive/competitive ma...
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So, I'll preface this with the fact that I admittedly didn't handle this famously from the start, and my re-evaluation is, in part, evaluating parts of this issue that I really should have looked into before I got inv...
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Hello everyone,
I’m a new BP listener and member. My husband and I are both in the military and we are living overseas. We are looking into buying an investment property in the states, but don’t know how to get start...