My property in MD is turning over to a new tenant. My PM sent me a quote that gave me a small heart attack. Upon further inspection, I quickly recognized that the times they were allocating for various tasks were gros...

To clarify my situation, I am in my first year of landlording, househacking a duplex, so I live next door to tenant. Tenant hasn't even been here a full six months and has broken the lease I feel several ways, but Im ...

I’ve educated myself. I’ve watched countless hours of YouTube videos and listened to the same amount of podcasts. I just finished a webinar course and I’m ready to take the dive.  I’m so used to the rat race that I ha...

His exact words....'Don't F@#$*&G do it!!!!!!'.  I am very confused now.  I have been researching/reading books, blogs, podcasts, anything I can find about real estate investing over the last month or so, trying t...

I have been seeing this a lot lately: people who hold on to underperforming properties because they add to their door count or to their self-worth as real estate investors. If you don't like buying hoarders' houses, d...

My husband and I are ready to invest in our first vacation property, likely in Florida. We hope to eventually have multiple properties, but want to take our time to learn and make the right decisions with our first re...

I realized in February of 2011 that my ladder was leaning against the wrong financial building. Sooooo, I started to use my savings, refinancing my personal home, and taking out my IRA’s and 401K money through the cou...

I want to write the title in quotes because it's not like I had much of a strategy to start with.  I bought a duplex and a turn-key SFH at a normal price for houses in the area.  Both were conventional loans with 25% ...

Hey, BP family. I've notice as a new investor that it seem like everyone is trying too avoid D class hood. I hear a lot of negativity about it. Is their any upside with theses neighborhoods ? What's on the positive en...

Excuse what is going to be a long rant - for the sake of my sanity I need to get this off my chest. I have another username on Biggerpockets (no, Adam Smith is not my real) which is my real name - but for this post I ...