Lesson Learned! Always check your credit regularly from ALL of the BIG 3 reporting agencies.Cliff notes are at the end of this post.Right at the peak of the housing bubble in 2006 my wife, a single public school teach...

Hey there,
I'm almost ready to purchase a house hack and have found some good deals right off the MLS. Trouble is that I don't yet have long-term employment in place (just moved to the area a month ago). I really wan...

Hi BP community!
I’m looking to see what options I might have to get my EM back. 
I terminated the contract, 100% clean termination for a legit reason based on a contingency in a signed contract. The seller is total...

This is my first attempt at a lease to share agreement. I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions as far as wording or additions to this lease? also wondering about the rules, I guess as a whole, what do you t...

Hi there - My problem seems pretty straightforward, but my tenant keeps asking for his damage deposit back so I want to be prepared in case he takes me to small claims court.  The short version of the story:
January ...

There's a letter from 45 Congress members to HUD stating concerns about recent sales of notes to the big players. The letter states concerns that "speculators" don't put neighborhood stabilization at the top of the th...

Hi BP members,I will be taking on a partner in an upcoming deal and am looking for advice on how to structure the partnership where we are protected from each other.Our concerns are that we both have things we are inv...

I hired a general contractor to do a fairly major rehab on one of my properties.  Construction is done but it now turns out that the GC apparently has not paid some of the subs yet and they threaten to file contractor...

Hi BP, I'm quite new to the real estate and rental world. Last year, I purchase my first rental townhouse and I split the master-bedroom into two rooms and rent out to student. But I recently got a phone call for the ...

One of my tenants sent me this email. I’m having trouble coming up with a tactful way to say, “This isn’t my freaking problem!” LOL, anyone have something better than that to where it sounds like I care and want to he...