Does Zillow (or other listing sites for that matter) have fairly accurate estimates or should you only rely on getting appraisal or inspecting and comparing to comps?

Hi everyone, I currently live in minneapolis MN and my wife and I bought our first duplex back in july. It has a detached garage. It has a manual door and no electricity. We are trying to decide if we should upgrade t...

My market is pretty competitive, so brokers and rehabbers came to us to get a leg up on the competition. While I love direct mail, the sellers have almost become numb to it because there are so many new "investors" en...

Hey Everyone, I'm a 23 year old from Ontario Canada and I'm relatively new to BP and Real Estate investing. I've been listening to the podcast for a few months and have been so inspired to start my Real Estate journey...

I have been searching online for mailing lists for commercial multi family properties and came across a site called “Reonomy”? Has anybody ever used them before? If not, who do you use other than ListSource?Disclaimer...

How do you tenant proof your rentals? I was listening to BP show 48 and they gave a few ideas. I listed a few of them they discussed plus some from this post. What else do you do?
Screen tenants thoroughlyUse 5/8 dry...

I'm new to the site and fairly new to REI in general. I'm pleased to have found such a great community. I can tell by clicking around that everyone is quite eager to help. I feel the same way. I'm building my whole...

Hi BP,I am closing on a 3 family soon and will be renovating one of the vacant units immediately. After renovation, I will move in to this unit and househack. It's a 1 bedroom unit, and needs the kitchen completely re...

I have a friend I’m trying to help. He owns his own business and makes good money, $200-$300K per year, but he also has many tax write-offs so he shows a much smaller yearly income on his tax returns. His dilemma is h...

There is a lot of hype in the BP forums about the devastating effects the impending ‘crash’. It seems that this crash will have a negative impact on home buyers, but not investors. Do we really need to be freaking out?