We recently leased a home to allow us some time to find land and build a new house.  This is not my first rodeo in rentals, private landlord, and leasing company. When we moved in the previous renters left a ton of de...

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Hello All,I have been dreaming about this for many years. Read dozens of books, attended seminars, and surfed the forums and discussions. Prior to the crash in 2006-2008 I was a carpenter in residential new constructi...

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I'm very interested in a 6 unit MF near where I live and thinking about pulling the trigger on it. It has one long hallway on each floor and two staircases at each end of the building. Just wondering how...

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I'm in the process of purchasing a new property for a buy and hold strategy. The seller and I have already signed the contract, but now the listing agent is requesting that I sign a correction stating that my ...

Too many RE gurus are telling people to overleverage themselves into the worst housing market (and potentially economy) in decades. Half of them are below 30 and have never seen a downmarket in their investing lives, ...

Hello BP Community,I want to start flipping homes in my market, and potentially out of state, and I want to know how to budget for a General Contractor. For the first few, having a GC work with me, I think it will all...

I'm curious how long it takes most of you to get a rehab estimate from a GC? Is this something I should expect on the sport? In 1-2 days? In a week or more?

I have a town home rental in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Last night there was a violent storm and my basement window caved in, and violent rain crashed the windows and did considerable damage to the basement.

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Hello guys! I am a 34 year old woman in Ohio pending a divorce and will have about $100k to start over and rebuild when the dust is settled in a few months. I've dabbled in several investment types with limited succes...