So here is the situation everyone...My wife and I bought a condo back when the market was sky high at 439,000.  It went as low as 300,000.  It's now around 410,000 and we owe 415,000.  Our monthly mortgage is about 19...

Based on your experience, what are the best cities to invest in the next couple of years?The city i live in (los angeles) is overpriced and most of investments i've seen lately do not make any sense; i'm therefore com...

As another test of the new BP file vault, and to give back to the BP community, attached is the spreadsheet I use to evaluate single family house rentals.

In general, the red colored fields are th...

Does anyone know whether there is already an article somewhere on BP about how to become a private lender? I have some cash that I want to put to work, but I do not know how to start out as a private lender, what t...

What do you guys think of this plan?
I buy some mailing database of doctors, lawyers... I either email them or mail a postcard to ask them if they would be interested in getting 8% on their money backed by real estate...

I find myself in an interesting position. I'm a total newbie with access to a million dollars. I know it sounds ...well, actually I have no idea how it sounds. A million dollars might sound like an outlandish sum of m...

Hi all! I'm new to BP and new to this real estate investing world. My husband and I are under contract for our first intentional investment property (to which we will be moving and renting out the basement.) We own ou...

Hello everyone, I have been scavenging through the forums lately looking for some advice on this and listening to a Podcast right now.  Question is how does an eager hopefully soon to be investor get into the game wit...

Hi all, I am interested in getting started in real estate investing and pretty overwhelmed after reading a lot and doing a lot of the basics over the past 6 months. I am a physician so looking for more hands off inves...

There have been several threads here on BP lately about the legality issues when seller financing to consumers. New, apparently stricter federal regs are in place to start 1/2014.

I've posted before that I've been...