I'm going to sell a condo down in Palm Desert California that I fully remodeled. I want to sell it with owner financing to facilitate a fast sale (lot of inventory in the desert and market time is VERY slow). Asking p...

The LLC debate rages on here at BP.   Rarely does a day pass without an investor asking whether they should use an LLC or not.  Perhaps BP should have a whole forum just devoted to this question . . .Having an LLC is ...

It has been agressively stated here on BP that operating expenses average 50% of gross rents. I have posted many times that while that may be true with some properties, it is not accurate or appropriate to use this pe...

If you were just starting out and had $150,000 to invest in real estate where would you begin? ( This is me! I would like to have at least $4000 a month in income by the end of the year.) 

I had this idea I've been malling for about 5 years now, it's related to car title loans with process collections, it's always been complicated so I never got past the legal phase... but then the other evening it hit ...

I know there's a lot of threads on Dodd/Frank and Lonnie Deals, However I'd like to hear from anyone who currently does seller financing and what method they're deploying to be compliant. Ideally, I'd like hear from s...

I was thinking in a long term view.  Take two examples, tell me which you'd buy.House 1:100k house, 5k down, 20k in repairsRents for 2kCash flow is 500/moHouse 2:500k house, 25k down, no repairsRents for 4kCash flow i...

So long question short, my rental property averages about $150 a month cash flow after regular maintenance expenses and minor repairs. But for a capex expense, my next one being a bath tub replacement or replacing the...

I spent a few years in the mid west in little towns that mined lead. At one time, the real estate investors there probably thought “we use lead for everything, no way it could fail as a commodity. If I hold onto this ...

I haven't been doing this as long as some of the big time investors here.  But I've had a pretty interesting run over the last 20 years.  And I'm just wondering if anybody else is seeing the same thing.  I started in ...