Hey BP community!Just getting started on the RE journey. Narrowed down to SFH or small MFH and house hack for my first property. Numbers don’t make sense in my market to do anything but a house hack without putting do...

Hello new friends!  I’m completely new at all of this and I need some direction because my ADD brain can’t decide which way to go and quite frankly I’m exhausted from thinking about every avenue of possibility.  I'm h...

I was reading the other thread by Brandon Turner about your worst tenant horror story. It made me think about some nasty houses I've looked at over the years. I have two that really stand out in my mind.

The first wa...

I've been reading posts here on BP for the past few hours where a lot of our members are defending both sides of two very classic RE investor battles:

1.) Good neighborhood or bad? (Low cash flow + hopeful appreciat...

Hello all- my privilege to grow with all on the site.I came across this site as I was researching selling a “rental” property on a Land Contract, and based on information from here and other research, it sounds like a...

As a real estate investor you see all kinds of really WEIRD stuff.

I remember inspecting an attic for a house i was thinking about buying. It was full of HAY. Yes Hay.. like in straw! The owner needed more insul...

Good morning BiggerPockets, my name is Shawn Carney. I’m currently a full time firefighter in Northern Virginia and I’ve been listening to the podcast for a few months and just started looking at the forums.

I boug...

Hi Everyone, I have read measure EE "Just Cause for Eviction" rules in Oakland. I see that the rules DO NOT apply to a property of 3 units or fewer, where the owner lives in of the units. Here's the language from the ...

Is $85k too much or too little to budget for a complete gut rehab for a $969 square foot, 1 story, signal family in St. Louis area? Roof, foundation, and all brick are good structure good. However, pretty much everyt...