I'll go first: we once had an owner not hire us to manage her property because we refused to market the home as "2 bed, 1 bath." Why did we refuse? Because one of the bedrooms had been converted into a music studio. T...

So i been driving for dollars lately and i've been sending out letters to the absentee owners for those vacant properties but theres a couple of houses i been trying to figure out where the owners are. I searched in P...

Earlier I was reading and interesting article today. Basically explaining how HUD is sitting on over 240,000 REO's and does not know what to do with them since conventional lending will not loan to distressed housing....

I had 2 rental properties in Chicago (I dont live in neither). One of them became a nightmare so I sold it a few months ago. I sold it for way higher than I bought it. I have all this cash in hand and I feel IRS is go...

hi bp

I have been approached to be part of a land development project.

100 acres, approved for 700+/- multi units.

Limited partnership.

Raw land

Meeting with the contact tomorr...

For those interested in the Honolulu market and/or more generally locations with significant supply constraints, here is a recent story from Bloomberg.Bloomberg notes that property values (condo prices) have almost tr...

Hi, I have found a property that was sold in a tax sale, in the state of MD, not in B-More City, found out that the person died in the house, also the only family member that knows is someone in FL. THat family member...

Hey Biggerpockets Community!  I have a tricky question that I cannot find any good answers for on the internet.  Big fan of everything you give to our community.  Here we go….So my dad signed over his estate (house an...

I purchased a property in Miami Dade a few years back. A year after owning it, a new tenant moved in and when she tried to turn the water service on, she was told there was a lien for unpaid water. The water company w...

Hi everyone!  I'm new to bigger pockets but I'm not new to real estate investing.  For the past 4 years I've been focused full-time on the niche of pre-existing non-conforming land parcels and/or land that is consider...