I want to hear from the most economically informed BP members about their thoughts on the slow poison of negative interest rates & how it effects our industry & investing going forward.

Looks like financial regulators have closed Silicon Valley Bank. This bank has high exposure to tech & venture capital, however I was surprised to see this headline so soon. I have seen several articles stating th...

I've been looking at prices and rents on realtor.ca and kijiji. The price/rent ratio near Montreal (where I live) is absolutely terrible. Revenue/price are <7% and once you subtract expenses you end up with cap rat...

I have 60k saved and I’m looking at MF in the Midwest. Des Moines, IA is another location. I’m not sure if I should save the 60k and let it keep growing. Some say the collapse is coming but I think it’s naive to wait....

ok now that paulson changed his mind and will now be injecting capital into the banks rather than directly buying the troubled assets, im thinking this is great news for RE investors right? i feel the bailout was a jo...

In real estate, or business in general, you win by solving problems that others can not solve. How do you do that? You must be extremely creative and think outside of the box, and do things others cannot think of doin...

Hi all, I am a fairly new landlord in northern Virginia, and have been renting my 2 bedroom town home for the last two years. I just had new tenants move in and within two weeks, the closet shelves in the master bedro...

I realized that if I had kept more reserves and had less leverage and done a rental stress test on my properties, all of the properties I had that I bought at the top of the market in 2006, I would have been doing bet...

We are entering the crisis. Top of the residential real estate market may stretch into the fall fueled by low rates. Corona virus impact coupled with oil price collapse will stress economy resulting in local / global ...

Since we now have Provincial sub-forums on BP, I am going to suggest we collapse them as follows:- Atlantic Canada- Québec- Ontario- Prairies & the North- British Columbia My argument for the collapse is there are...