Hi BP Bay Area community. New investor here. I am trying to figure out the best way to leverage lending to buy additional properties. I have 2 properties with lots of equity (estimated: 800K). I looked into convention...

Are we real estate investors all alone?  Lately I've been talking about real estate a lot to my friends and family, and today I was told by someone that they didn't want to hear about it anymore.  Have you ever experi...

I'm seriously considering the following deal,
Condo in the French Quarter in New Orleans (400 square feet) which is typical for that area
Purchase Price $115,000
Owner will carry with 60K dp

I wanted to know what typ...

     While travelling with my good friend who is a fellow real estate investor, and giving him a hard time for investing in what I considered mediocre returns in his local market, he really one-upped me.  He gave me t...

My husband and I locked in a rate of 4.25% on a 30 year loan with a mortgage company. We paid the $495 fee and the senior loan guy told us this was an easy loan to do because of my husbands excellent credit score, his...

Ok I have acquired over 120 units of rental property and have used the following rules: 1) Purchase properties in areas that have a geographic Impediment to growth. 2) Don't purchase a property that you wouldn't be w...

We just closed on a bank-owned property w/city services and today I had an appt to get the water turned back on at the street. The city water guy told me there's a leak somewhere between the curb box and the house.

I...

My job allows me to live anywhere within the Southeast (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and the Carolinas). I am looking to buy my first property in one of these states, but do...

Hello BP. Like many (most?) of you I've been enjoying the podcasts for a while and am now officially joining the community. I would like to purchase a buy and hold n-plex and like many first time buyers, have spent a ...

Hi, I have a lot of owners in my area that are interested in selling their property, but as you can imagine, the potential hit of taxes tends to deter them from pulling the trigger. I have begun to consider the idea o...