My wife and I had been interested in purchasing a rental property for about a year with the intent of making this a business. She's a teacher, I'm an engineer and we have little faith in the future of Social Security ...

I had a series of unfortunate events happen to 3 my properties this year:1) one property, my first tenant ever, moved out because they bought their own house so I saw my first year's cashflow go out the door due to tu...

I just purchased a duplex 2 weeks ago where the rents were almost half of market rent.  I decided not to do what everyone else in Portland is doing when they acquire a property--namely kick out all the tenants, rehab,...

Don't let your excitement and determination to get a deal funded blind you to the notorious red flags of so called Private Money Lenders. Believe me I know, I've dealt with enough PMLs to see the red flags before they...

So I have to share mine, because it just happened this week. We went back and forth with the tenant in our rental home but finally convinced them to move out without having to go the eviction route. When they did fina...

Hi All! Happy New Year -We just discovered a property we purchased last spring (2022) had a tax lien on it that had been sold in late 2021. Notices had been going to the seller. The lien was put into foreclosure about...

If a property is in foreclosure and set to be auctioned off, is it still possible to contact the owner of the property, pay off the remaining debt and obtain the property before it goes to auction?  Or once it is in f...

I just read a thread where an "investor" suggested that someone way the risk and if the down side could be covered, afford to suffer, to take the less ethical route.

Another thread was suggesting that investors just ...

Hello, I hope you find this post motivational and inspiring. At the young tender age of 16, my family set me up in an arrange marriage. Not knowing much about life, I agreed and did as my family wished. Still driven t...