It's that time again...The light is on and I'm taking questions.  If you've read a real estate book, gone through some real estate forums, watched some videos and you KNOW you want to become a real estate investor but...

Back in November (2014) I closed on my first REI property.  A 'turnkey' duplex in Chicago.  I went with a well-known turnkey provider and posted initial updates in this thread:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/to...

I'M TIRED OF HEARING PEOPLE SAY THERE ARE NO GOOD DEALS WHEREVER THEY ARE AT!!!! BULLSH*T!!!! (You hear me @Aaron Mazzrillo azrillo?!)We're in the San Francisco Bay - allegedly one of the most expensive/overpriced mar...

This house barely cash flows. I worry about it being near the peak especially in LV due to the looming recession. With 85k involved in closing, it isn't an ideal time to buy if the market turns against me and I can bu...

So recently I’ve been incredibly excited about this new journey of REI. I’ve been looking at properties in the Indianapolis/Louisville markets and have found some places I’m interested in. No one in my family has any ...

As the number of investors swell, so do the number of "so called hard money lenders" Since the recession, a lot of hard money lenders, or as I will call them, "pretend hard money lenders" ask you this question. How mu...

If you were able to choose from a range of investment mortgages... from those that are currently available in your local market and one that is available to you at 2%, which would you choose?

Chances are if you have done a few wholesale deals in your day, then you have heard someone gripe about the dangers of dealing with wholesalers. Typical comments from someone that has been burned from wholesalers in t...

I'm setting up a new rental (large SFR with backyard) in Cozy and can't decide if I should allow pets or not. My current tenants don't have pets, so it didn't come up previously, but with the new listing I'm leaning t...

Please Help!  Here's the deal I decided to sell my rental property, Bevly House, to get out of debt so that I could then reinvest here in New Braunfels, Texas where I live. I am a single mom with a limited amount of i...