Dear Pocketers,

How do you harden / bullet-proof your rentals?

While I've never had anyone utterly trash a rental of mine, I've seen the damage they can do first hand (typically when buying the rental and seeing ...

Hello Everyone,I've learned a lot from Frank Gallinelli's "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow," however, the Internal Rate of Return concept is still a little confusing to me.In this book th...

Hi all, I'm a newbie real estate investor. I just graduated about a year and a half from Cal and have been working since graduation. I've been saving hard for a down payment and now I think I might've stumbled across ...

After looking at several SFH, I have yet to find one to purchase for a rental that would be profitable in my area. As a result, I expanded my search to my hometown which is about an hour away and have found a 7 unit m...

A new colleague of mine here on BP has asked me some questions via PM and I thought it was best to present his questions and my answers in the public forum for all to benefit from. This will also give him and others t...

I'm looking at this building, ARV (though I plan to hold) is 750k, needs 100k at least (150k pessimistic est), and the seller is down to 425k (mortgage is 410k which I will assume, though I will have to pay back some ...

I recently filled out a pre-approval application for a mortgage, however, the lender did a hard pull and told me they came back with no score. Credit karma gave me a score of 711, I know it is an estimate but I found ...

Hey all, I'm looking at purchasing my first investment property and have been pre-approved for $225k. I live in the DC suburbs in Maryland and would ideally like to find a property within this region, Baltimore or ev...