I am completely new to real-estate, but have been thinking about doing short-term rentals through Airbnb for quite some time now. I've done quite a bit of research/market research and have a decent amount of capital s...

My partner and I just purchased an investment property in Chicago, IL and I figured I would come here to walk through the deal.The property is in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago which is a hip, up and coming ...

Hey everyone, Connecticut based investor with 2 condos and 1 multi-family in the Hartford/Bristol area that I want to put under property management. In the last week, all of my tenants have reached out for this or tha...

Hi all,I have a condo in a high rise building in Chicago where the current tenants are moving out. For the prior lease I used an agent. This time I am using Zillow to reduce on agent commissions. I have 1 interested p...

What should I do if I have no money but I want to find some financing to buy my first property. What options do I have to get some money?

Hello all,I have posted about this topic before, but never got into the specifics of it.I have purchased a duplex with one unit being occupied by a long term (5 year) tenant. The issue is that the long term tenant nev...

In 2010 I had the rose colored glasses knocked off my face hard and I am trying to understand why and how there is such Happy Talk right now about the economy.  I am trying to figure out if it is my pessimism based in...

Hi All,
I just want to know all your feed back that I got these following questions from a potential tenant who ask these just a few days before promising to come to sign the lease...are any of these red flags or nor...

Hello,I need some urgent help - thank you so much in advance! We are in the process of purchasing our first rental (buy and hold), getting ready for home inspection - but we are thinking of dropping out.  Should we? T...