Feel free to laugh with me (or at me, whichever) as I begin my journey into real estate investing...So I went to a “free investment advice” session, found via Instagram. Must be legit. Doug Hopkins, star of the Discov...

https://chicagocitywire.com/st...More than 163,000 Cook County property taxpayers didn’t pay their
bills this year, according to an analysis of Cook County Treasurer
records by Chicago City Wire. That’s about 9 pe...

1. Screen your tenants better. Do intricate research and invest your time in getting to know them beyond just knowing that they are people who need a place to live and on the surface seem to be able to pay. 2. Ensure ...

I know I could have tenants pay for rent on my own website but is it even worth it?The negatives im thinking about are a credit card processing fee, payments to keep the website up and running, and just another headac...

Many of the multifamily properties listed in Chicago (in the $400k-$600k price range) are built between 1890-1920. I noticed many of these foundations have settled, cracks in plaster, dips in the flooring, etc. If the...

I'm interested in buying a lake house in Northern, or possibly mid-Michigan. I have rented a few for vacations on HomeAway, and now I'd like to just own one myself for use a couple of weeks a year and hopefully have i...

So here's the situation.

I inherited this tenant, let call her tenant A, when I first purchased the property back in July. It’s a triplex, I live there myself and rent the other two units. This is my first property...

For those of you trying to raise capital right now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, you will likely face challenges from your investors that are normally faithful in investing with your group. 
Here are fou...

Michael Johnson, unproven; yet serious.I walked into a local real estate office and chatted with a lovely realtor named Annabelle. After 15 or so minutes, boom she invites me to her office and we started looking at th...

Hey everyone,Live in the Boston area and looking to getting start building a portfolio and have roughly $800k in equity sitting in our primary residence.   We have some cash to get started with but I'm looking to scal...