This was my first real estate book purchase from amazon. Once I start reading its hard to put it down. Ive finished 6 chapters so far and I must say I'm ready to find volume 1 just to have it. Its very educational.

It's this time of year, when cutting checks to my private lenders, that I send some sort of thank you or christmas card with a short hand written note. In the past, I have dropped off chocolates or included a gift car...

Among multiple offers, the listing agent has chosen my offer as the strongest one and is in the process of negotiating with the bank (this is a short sale). However, the listing agent is also insisting that we open es...

The wife and I recently painted our kitchen countertops. We both think it came out great, at the very least much much better than the laminate look we had before. Painting the countertops could be a very economical wa...

If you were advising a new buy and hold rental property investor what are the most important things you would tell them to consider before buying their first rental?I am putting together some literature for a new inve...

I just read last night rental insurance  going way up? For example multi families up by 33%. And others also up a lot. Has anyone seen anything like this?

So one of our rentals has a concrete slab in the backyard - it covers the entire area (700 sq feet) from garage to building to property line. It looks like crap and every spring I have to shop vac up all the loose...

We're at the final steps at closing on a cottage, and an Issue I ran into is with the bank issued appraisal. The bank has deemed the appraisal as incomplete, and because of it started digging into the the pictures cur...

Hi,What are your thoughts on vinyl tile flooring? I'm thinking of installing in my rental. ThanksTony

I found this forum a couple months ago and have been soaking up as much knowledge as possible since then. At first I was eager to get my investing career started with an FHA loan and owner occupy one unit, then rinse ...