I have been a fleet manager/ director for awhile. Managing fleets of 150 to 13,000. I am looking at houses the same way I look at fleet vehicles and I would like to know if my thinking is flawed. See below:

I buy a s...

Anyone done this?  I have a substantial portfolio there and it seems I could get a margin loan to pay a downpayment on an investment property for a short period of time. Interactive Brokers has significantly lower mar...

Do you have any general guidelines you follow when converting from a fixed lease to a monthly? We are renting out a SFH with a 6mo lease starting 11/1/13 so that it will end about the time we can decide if it's wo...

We are currently under contract on a short sale, but the property has not been approved as a short sale by the bank or other lien holders. I was speaking with a mortgage broker about refinancing my primary residence a...

I have a contract to buy real estate. Just got the settlement statement, money is in escrow, and the seller disappeared.I did some investigating and have reason to believe he sold it to someone else with quit claim de...

I've been searching your posts this week and they're very insightful. We have a condo in a desirable historic neighborhood in Arlington, VA. We need to sell now to avoid capital gains or rent forever, as we see it. ...

I've lived in the same area for about 5 years and we currently own our home.  The value has increased ~ 80-100k in that time frame.  My husband and I are looking into investing in more properties in the same area as w...

I could use a crowdsourced opinion and numbers audit on a decision: I was planning on moving into one of my rentals this summer and I'm getting cold feet so I started crunching numbers again and it APPEARS that it mak...

I would love to hear any opinions on whether to show a unit while it's still occupied or wait till it's vacant and already cleaned, repaired and ready to go? Especially, when dealing with an unpredictable current resi...

Hello BiggerPocketeers, 
I received a cold call from a virtual assistant (in the Philippines) regarding lead generation for someone else. I started a quick conversation asking her I may be interested in looking to hi...