Hello Biggerpockets! Long time lurker, first time poster here from Southern California. Like many others, I've been binge-watching the podcasts and reading many of the blog posts here on this site.I am pretty much a c...

How does one get past the idea of NOT having a traditional retirement account and into the mentality of leaning on rentals to consistently bring in cash flow? Grew up in a traditional household and trying to break fre...

The ink has dried! (long post alert lol)
Dec 23rd, my partner and I closed on a 6 unit building in Allentown, PA!
RE Investing is a marathon, not a sprint, but it's been a muuuuch longer marathon than I initially i...

So I have been actively looking for good investment properties for the last two months. I went and looked at two yesterday that were still tenant occupied. The standards of living are so crummy at the houses that I wo...

Hello all! I’ve recently joined bigger pockets and have been reading everything I can get my hands on. I’ve found myself inadvertently in real estate investment. Although I may not have intended to get into it, my hus...

Is it normal to start freaking out after you purchase your first rental property?  I know I am seriously freaking out.  I hope that it's just the jitters from all of the new things going on.  This is the first propert...

Hi all, 
Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday so far. I am hoping to find some advice for how to remodel an outdated kitchen on my first investment property. 
Pic 1 - blue square represents a wall I want to remov...

I am renting a house to a tenant that keeps making improvements to the house. He put in a backsplash in the kitchen, put up larger fence doors, light fixtures and fans, etc. I keep telling  him to stop and he says don...

In my experience managing apartment communities, we have charged renters a pet fee (nonrefundable) at move in AND a monthly pet rent. I'm renting my SFH for the first time and am unsure how to charge the future renter...

I saw a TV show talking about the average sales price in the Bay area at 936k  along with some tear downs in Freemont selling for 1.1 to 1.3  it was crazy even for someone like me who bought their first home in the la...