I have heard from a few people to stay away from short term rentals in the Gatlinburg area which have drywall walls and ceilings. If the rest of the house is themed correctly, why not simply install wood siding/paneli...

Hi All,I signed a promissory note secured by a single family home that a real estate investor intended to flip. The real estate investor has advertised on this site, and continues to advertise joint ventures and priva...

We bought a house in Marin a few months ago, we had 5 contractors come out to bid on some minor kitchen work we wanted to do.

The General contractor we chose seemed honest, trustworthy and came highly recommended. Th...

Hi All, I'm a new "investor" - I'm not sure I can even call myself one yet. My wife and I have a primary residence here in the Temple market and a rental unit in the DFW area (former primary residence). We're still ve...

Hi there,New to BP (or at least to posting). Currently own one duplex which we lived in for a while, but are now renting both units with a nice monthly profit. We are ready to move forward with more investments and ha...

Hi all,Couple of firsts for me: first post & looking for first property. Happy to provide more info about myself, but will cut right to the chase:In today’s market, if you see a property listed for 4 months with ...

First some background: I am screening tenants to rent a room in a house I am living in.tl;dr: Seems that the applicant was rushing when filling out the application and had many errors in the application - not obvious ...

I dunno if I'm just missing an obvious button or something, but sometimes I see people reply and write @username comments and sometimes it'd be really handy to know how to do that. I tried just writing @username but i...

If everything goes well then our worst tenant ever will be moved-out in just under 12 hours from now, the champagne is on ice and we are cautiously optimistic. Interestedly enough, the problems with this tenant have v...