Make no mistake—when you decide to be a full-time real estate investor, you are starting a new business. The decisions you make at the beginning of your new venture have a major impact on your success. People in the e...

Hello fellow BP members, California Investor here looking to expand from LA into the Eastern US markets, Kansas city, Indianapolis, and Raleigh, NC (where I grew up) to name a few. Mainly learned my local LA market th...

Hello all, first time posting here on BP.  I own a rental property and am managing it myself.  My tenants have been wonderful so far and I haven't had to spend much time on it, but when a service call does happen, I o...

Hi Fellow Investors!We need a lawn mower for our rental property and I was wondering if anyone has too many lawn mowers to sell for cheap or know of any used ones? It is a small lawn so definitely a push mower would b...

Hey everyone! I'm wondering what programs people are using for tenants who don't live in the area yet and need to sign the lease remotely via e-signature. I currently use LawDepot to download my state specific Califor...

Hi everyoneI'm am considering purchasing a couple of condos next door to each other. They are in pretty good shape and are tenant occupied with long term tenants. However, on the inspection reports the inspector liste...

Make no mistake—when you decide to be a full-time real estate investor, you are starting a new business. The decisions you make at the beginning of your new venture have a major impact on your success. People in the e...

I was thinking about maybe giving my new tenants a shorter lease in case things wrong. Maybe something like a 3-6 month lease and then if they're good tenants I'll offer them a year lease. Is that something I should d...

I have 3 duplexes and work a regular job. I plan on retiring form my regular job in a year or two and keep the duplexes. Is there a tax advantage to having an LLC or Incorporate or whatever?

Last summer there was a lot of discussion of how the Dallas city council was amending the city's housing ordinance. (See article for more details.)Now that the ordinance has been amended and is in effect, how is it im...