I realize there's no "right" answer to this question, so I'm just looking for opinions or angles I haven't thought of.We owner occupied a duplex a few years ago in the SF Bay Area. We've since moved to North Carolina,...

My wife and I bought our first house, as our primary residence, and have planned on doing much of the repair ourselves.  First order of business has been the bathrooms in the house.  Before we even moved in, I had to ...

Yesterday I met the new tenants at their future home to hand them the keys and go over the operating basics for their home, gas, water, electric, filters etc. As we are standing outside wrapping up a neighbor lady com...

So whenever I visit my father for our "weekly meeting" I always go on about real estate investing. He always has only 2 responses:
1) you cannot do that here (i'm serious)
2) what you're trying to do is rip someone of...

Ok so a seller called me yesterday basically told me he was about to list with a realtor but had it rented out in mean time. He asked how I got his name i said I am looking to buy houses in your neighborhood and this ...

I'm thinking about getting two 4plex or one 8unit, and want to discuss the pros and cons for each. Let's assume that the total ROI is the same. Two 4plex pros is the diverse location, risk is lower (if one location is...

I am new to the real estate game and am not really sure if I am making the correct decision or not. I am attempting to buy a duplex for $30,000. I personally know the owner of the duplex (friend of my grandfather...

I am interested in getting into rental investments via house hacking. My eventual goal is to own a portfolio of properties outside of my personal residence, but the first two properties I buy will likely be house hack...

This is going to be a long post, but I felt it was worth taking the time to make because even after listening to nearly 150 episodes of BiggerPockets, there were still so many things that we missed, didn’t think of, ...

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I am working towards settlement on my first home purchase! Settlement is set for early November. My plan with the purchase (a 4 bed single family in Philadelphia) is to rent out 3 of the...