We rented our home out to a family on Section 8. It was our first rental and we made errors did not do our due diligence. We discovered several violations against their lease agreement early on but faced the challenge...

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I'm doing some research into starting a hard money lending business in California. The loans would be first trust deeds on non-owner occupied residential property (lending to RE investors) and the business en...

Midwestern markets are like football teams. Many people have an irrational attachment to them. Even if the population is declining, jobs are disappearing, and the city is mismanaged, they still advocate for them. So, ...

Just starting showing my rental property about 1.5 weeks ago, by appointment only.  It seems like a nice gesture to have private tours for the potential tenants that show up, but it also takes a lot of time.  So what ...

My current apartment offered me a new lease for 2,032 and I’m having trouble coming to terms with paying this amount for rent. My income after deductions is 70k and my wife’s annual income is a little over 50k. We bot...

Greetings everyone.As some of you know, I'm building a new house in San Jose, documented here: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/522/topics/154... , which scheduled to be finished in a couple of months.  So I'm itch...

When I have an apartment for rent; do I have to accept applications from individuals that are utilizing or qualified for Section 8.

Can I just state I am not renting to Section 8, or that I am not Section 8 q...

I know this may be a weird question to ask on a real estate forum (Im thinking the vast majority of responses will be pro real estate), but I wanted to get some different perspectives from the BP community.  I current...

Here's a report from CNN Money on flipping houses that continues the trend of media and government negativity on the housing situation:
House Flipping

Pay special attention to the reporter's remarks about flipping pl...