Ive had about 50 or more inquiries on my rental over the last two weeks. After I pre-screened, Only 5 of them have actually showed up for a showing, and a few filled out the online application that I had to kindly dec...

We are currently looking to rent out our single family home starting in June. We had several people come and look at the house and are very interested. I told everyone I was doing first come first serve (if they quali...

If YOUR party loses-How will YOU react?

This is NOT meant to start conflict! The below is my personal experience only and I DO NOT expect others to agree! I would like to hear others views and...

Hi everyone. I'm new to BP and new to REI in general. I'm looking to do my first deal and currently have an offer in a 6-unit multi-family house. Seller asking $140k with gross profit of $31k and net with $19k(w/o dep...

I have been told all my life in saving into my 401k that you need to save the maximum that you can. So for many, many years I have been saving the absolute maximum allowed by the government every year into the company...

I ran these numbers using 30 year fixed loans with rates ranging from 3.5% on the low end to 4.75% on the high end. This is for you buy-and-hold types that are now at the stage of looking at your 'permanent' financing...

I'm looking to buy a property in Baltimore use as a short-term rental full time via Airbnb. While working through the slower parts of the purchase process (financing through a small credit union), the thought occurs t...

I put my home on the market 15 days ago, hired a real estate attorney, and recently paid 500 for MLS. Been listed on MLS for 5 days and I haven’t received any calls from agents to have a buyer tour. What am I missing? 

I sometimes have to give tenants, what I call an "attitude adjustment".Below is an email that I sent to a tenant.  In her email, she talked about invoicing me for when she had to talk to the utility company.  I sent t...

As you may have heard, today Fed annouced QE3 of 40B per month (i.e. printing press) with no end in sight. Precious metals soared instantly along with the stock market. I wonder what it means to the real estate market...