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I hope you enjoy and learn. These are just basics so to build a foundation.

johnmichael: Let me start off with a little introduction, I...

We live in AZ; have rentals in CA.  Both of our SoCal rentals (one condo, one SFR) are in HOA areas.  In two years, we've never had any problems with them.  We bought them as newbies, and all we looked at were the fee...

Hi everyone! I am so thrilled I found this forum because my husband and I can't decide if we should take the risk with a potentially really great investment out of state. Some more info:

This pro...

I bought a house in a nice area where I did a lot of research. I found that my rental competition was mostly condominiums and apartments. These were all nice, but I thought there would be many tenants who would p...

Hi! I'm a newbie. I had two properties that went into foreclosure or short sale 6 years ago during the housing market crash. Up until last weekend I didn't think I can get another property again but due to an unexpect...

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Wanted to get some advice on a situation where a tenant (who is also real estate agent), have a notice of move-out (Dec 20th) which we only received today (post marked dec 5th), requesting that as per RCW 59...

I got my start in real estate investing unintentionally when I was about 24 years old. I was a bartender in Connecticut and making very good money. I decided it was time to “become an adult” and buy my first home. I h...

Edit: The title should have been "Lease California Condo or Sell and 1031 into OOS Multifamily?"I have a condominium I bought about 5 years ago for $60,000 that I can sell today and walk away with about $100,000 after...

These are current headlines. Although I don't think a collapse is imminent, I'm buying properties "off market" that have equity just to safe. I've seen several ups & downs of the housing market over the years and ...