I hate everything about the phrase "house hacking". EVERYTHING! The term "house hacking', in my opinion, is derived from the internet culture of hackers; hackers hack websites in order to gain unfair advantages. The s...

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My family and I are moving to GA in January (I’m active duty USAF) and we are looking for a home. I stumbled across a property listed FSBO on a well-known military "yard sale" type site...

I was reading my REI book and pondering things and I realized that in general, single-family homes are for investors who do things like flipping, rehabbing, and other strategies that depend price appreciation. For buy...

We've seen posts here on BP about "bigger players" getting into some markets. Some are reported to be hedge fund buyers that are renting the properties out, some seem to be specific to bank REO property. According to ...

Undoubtedly everything can be found for free on the internet, books, and what have you. However, I really want to know all I can about real estate and let my questions and doubts dissipate. For example, I remember whe...

I am very familiar with hard money but I am not certain exactly how lines of credit are set up.  If you are able to secure a line of credit, and you are looking to purchase buy-and-hold properties, would that be a bet...

I have been looking at properties in a largely hispanic apartment area. I'm curious how would the landlords here screen their tenants? Since most of the tenants here are illegal immigrants they probably have no credit...

Hey BP
I'm putting together my first direct mail campaign and wanted to get some feedback from the community.
My initial plan (based on recommendations from folks here) was to run a 6 touch campaign on a list of 10...

Hi everyone, I'm from the San Francisco bay area and I'm just starting out in the real estate investment world and I'm really glad I found this website. I'm already learning so much from all of the experts on this sit...

I am curious on what BP members think the impact that growth in real estate investing, wholesaling, and direct-buy practices is having on the old agency-model of buying/selling? Has anyone come across any articles or ...