I am currently looking to buy my first property and I made the decision to stay local to minimize my learning curve. I found a nice 2 bedroom 2 bathroom with great potential at $103,000 asking for an 8k down payment. ...

I keep running into the SAME issue with foreclosures and that is running out of time. How do you buy time to get a deal closed? I get calls from homeowners but the auction is always at most 7 days away and in order to...

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My brother and I have been going through the closing process for a few weeks now on our first house. Today was supposed to be the final walk through, and tomorrow was the closing date. Minutes be...

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I am in the process of buying a short sale, our offer was approved and we were given a month to get the mortgage together and close. Unfortunately the basement flooded abo...

I am watching an episode of "The Office" where Dwight now owns the building that the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. One of the running jokes is that Dwight has installed motion sensor lights in the the office in o...

Hi everyone,I've been investing in real estate for about 3 years now and have acquired 15 units by 25. Yet, I currently don't have a property to call my own (I've been living with family.) In December I went into cont...

I am a first time landlord. I listed my first property for rent more than a week ago. So many people showed interest in the property but only one person has actually applied. I have shown the property to at least 15 p...

Hello Bigger Pockets. My business partner and I just bought a Single Family home in Sacramento and are in the process of rehabbing. Wooh our first deal! We are looking for a good General Contractor to help us along, a...

I live in the Greater Detroit area of Michigan and from my quick analysis so far just using the 50% rule I have found out that only the properties (single family homes) which are from the 1940s and 50s located in B, B...

I bought my first property earlier this year in Chicago and it has a sump pump in the basement unit. Being that this is my first property and I have never dealt with sump pumps before I had someone come out and look a...