My two high school helpers put a full day in today.  Planting trees in the cold mist today.  Then traveling 40 minutes away to help on storm wind damage from last night.        They both graduate in a month.  Luke wil...

Hi everyone! Just joined BP, heard a lot of good things about this knowledgeable group. Need some advice on how to handle rent increase. My tenants been renting my house for the past 3 yrs. and I have not raised th...

I listed the bottom unit in the duplex my wife and I just bought two days ago and haven’t gotten any good prospects yet. I found a tenant through Zumper who’s a business guy in his 50s who’s moving from AZ to Chicago ...

I think my husband and I might be too near retirement to begin investing in real estate, but we have four adult kids who have all expressed an interest in this. Three of the four are military, one is a school teacher....

I am an investor that recently got licensed so that I can start getting paid on all of the leads I send out to local agents. A colleague of mine is moving to EXP and sent me their Policies and Procedures doc. After re...

So there are a couple of cool things that'll be happening to Little Village.http://chicago.curbed.com/2017/3/15/14935330/chica...El Paseo Trail2nd class Restaurants being put into 26th Street (Panda Express)Apart from...

Hello all, I have a family member that has a decent property 4bd 2b  2 car detached garage on about 1-2 acre value is around $230–250 and if cleaned up and in perfect condition $300+.  Now the property is free and cle...

Was just talking with Menards, the Mohawk Home Expressions vinyl plank I used for the last project is already discontinued. Menards checked with the vendor on their current set of colors (came in Fall 2017) and the ve...

New BiggerPockets member, 1st time home buyer, and 1st post! Recently got approved for a FHA 203k loan - yay 😃 
My interest came back 3% but my APR came back 4% what is that about? 
Am I ultimately paying 4%? Is thi...

So, I recently had a conversation with a client of mine about her wanting to sell her triplex. She currently lives in one apartment with the two other apartments rented out, bringing in $1,125 not counting her apartm...