Hi everyone,
I currently live in the Bay Area (California) and I’m interested in getting into real estate investment. My goal is to start out buying a multi-unit property in early 2021. Ideally, it’d be somewhere in...

My buddy and I are looking to get into rental arbitrage with Airbnb. I've heard a lot specifically about leasing properties through an LLC and then using it on Airbnb. I know you can do it but unsure how exactly to go...

What would you choose - a 20% cash on cash return in a decent neighborhood or 35% cash on cash return in not the best neighborhood? Everything else being equal.

If you could also explain why you would choose one over...

Just listed my house for rent Saturday.  Got a 3rd call today from an out of state tenant who now says she wants to rent my house, sight unseen, and offered to pay a years worth of rent upfront with a $100/mo (6%) dis...

I have my real estate license, I study the market. I read all the great investing books, I listen to the bigger pockets podcast religiously. I am so ready to let our money work for us, instead of us working for our m...

With the exception of community banks and credit unions, most would agree that banks still aren’t lending. “Hogwash!” some of you bankers who are reading this will probably say.

As a follow up to a post I did nearly...

Here's a provocative video...explaining we have a real estate bubble right now in 2014. When do you think this bubble will pop? Back in 2005 (after hurricane Katrina hit), I predicted a real estate collapse as well bu...

Well- despite all of the advice against it, I hired one of my tenants to do some basic property management work. He wanted work and I needed some help - pure and simple. You know how hindsight is 20/20? Well, I'm goin...

I thought it would be nice to have a collecting point for day to day money/time savers for rentals. Some things I do or have seen on the forum so far:

Remove storm doors.
Advertise rentals on craigslist
Remove or lo...

  I made a $60K offer on a property listed for $78K.  The listing broker refused to send the contract to the seller.  When I had my agent insist that the offer be forwarded the listing broker forwarded but only after ...