After 10 years in our current home we have simply outgrown it and are moving up.  This is a perfect opportunity to "obtain" our first investment property and as such we intend to sell our current home with owner finan...

Hi, I'm new to multi-family rental investing; trying to get my spreadsheets in good shape.

Can someone help me understand: If the 50% rule starts out estimating 50% of gross rent goes to expenses, and folks o...

I am a complete beginner at this. I'm sure many of you can remember how scared you were with your first deal. I am looking for mine and want to know how my math is. I have found a property and am ...

Like a sleepy frog in boiling water, we're all getting comfortable with the idea of rising home prices. In some price ranges - largely caused by hedge funds and institutional and non-instutional investors buying up e...

I’m a newbie investor but have some capital backing me. I’ve spent the past yr educating myself in all aspects of real estate investing. The more I research, the more I’m leaning towards jumping right into multi famil...

I'm sure someone else has thought of it, but with the number of people on BP asking about investing in flips from outside the local area, is there an industry built around managing flips?For example, I'm an out-of-sta...

Mainly talking about Zillow, Trulia, Redfin.  After coming here and reading up the last few months, I get the sense that one should never go after properties that hit the market and instead try to find off-market deal...

Hello BP,
After investing for a year and a half, I find myself in a strange dilemma. 
I've become so focused on cash-flow that I refuse spending any money on myself. I make extreme sacrifices on a personal level to ...

Hello,Today I read "Set For Life" by Scott Trench. It got me thinking about my current situation with my 401(k). My background: I am 25 years old and am focused on absorbing as much information as possible about real ...

I’m considering buying a second home which I’d rent out in Airbnb/VRBO for part of the year.What are the biggest mistakes you made when buying a vacation rental? What do you know now that you knew then?