Does anyone have a worksheet with general costs for itemized rehab/replacement items?  I'm trying to put something together so I can do a really rough estimate of costs to fix a property after the inspection but befor...

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $143,000

Cash invested: $37,000

This is a beautiful, 4-unit apartment complex in a stable rental market of K...

Hoping to help some newbs avoid some serious banking pain. This is one of many disasters with this bank that I have been involved with. I just spent 30 minutes helping my plumber try and get funds from a job. He depos...

Hi All,I wanted to get a second opinion on this topic. I recently graduated from college, and am currently living in NYC.  I started with about 90K in student debt and now have under 40K left to pay.  I am saving each...

We have been living at this place for nearly 2 years. The "landlord" didn't have us sign a lease agreement for the place but we have been very diligent with our payments. Here recently they have spoken about needing t...

My wife and I purchased our first rental in August of last year, and suffice it to say this has been quite the learning experience with many newbie investor mistakes made along the way. Right now we are dealing wit...

Straight Outta Stockton - Anatomy of another Stockton “Deal”In a previous post I made some bold general statements regarding how hard it is to find an even halfway decent deal on the MLS in Stockton, CA. As a sort of ...

Here is the deal.  I was the winning bidder at the February foreclosure auction.  As I went to pay the trustee, a relator approached me and advised me that it is his clients house and that the client filed bankruptcy ...

I continue to be frustarted with the current laws and regulations we as investors must deal with and it seems that the laws are mostly AGAINST us!

With that in mind, I would like to know (if there is not one already)...

Hello BP,Although I am an investor, currently the home my wife and I live in is leased to us. As part of the lease agreement, the LL retained one of our three attached garages unavailable to us. It is all open inside,...