I have recently purchased a condominium as my primary residence in August 2018. I am on a 30-year fixed with 4.75% interest rate. Can I replace my current mortgage with a first lien HELOC? I tried a few times to obtai...

I currently own a Mid-Term rental located in Greater Seattle. One of the strategies I picked up early to utilize was renting by the room. Through trial & error I have learned how to support this specific rental st...

First of all, I apologize for those of you primarily looking to help people out with actual problems or decisions on their hands, because I don't have either of those. I am simply looking to learn.

If anyone would pl...

Has anyone used the airbnb rental arbitrage strategy? Would love to hear any experiences with this type of strategy

Can someone help me understand the major differences beween the two strategies?  Do most people perform upgrades on buy and holds?  Is the brrrr strategy about forcing apreciation so that you can refinance and  cash o...

Hey Bay Area BP members, we've been hosting regular afternoon Coworking sessions at our community work space in North Berkeley and we'd love to have you join us.

Here's some more information along with a lin...

Hi everyone,My name is Ryan Toth and I am originally from West Point, NY currently living in Charleston, SC (with an eye on some land in Martin county FL, hence the profile) with my wife and two young sons (2 under 2)...

Robert Shiller raised this question over the weekend in a NY Times article ... he delves into a bit of history of why govt has subsidized housing and his theory why we continue to do so. I tend to agree it's less of ...

I tried searching it on the forums and it pulled up zero results. Does anybody have any experience with riba free, or interest free, financing? It’s an Islamic form of banking.

I was listing to “Good to Great” by Jim Collins on the way into my W2 today and the author mentioned something that I have been thinking about ever since I heard it…
He mentioned the concept of when building a projec...