The landlord-tenant world changed last night. The US Senate’s COVID-19 bill changed the landlord’s rights. That bill, passed last night, affects landlords that have federally insured (or “backed”) mortgage loans. T...
Anyone using BP ever noticed the SPCA solicitations on T.V. requesting contributions to help provide Food and Shelter for Animals? Don't get me wrong, I like Dogs and Cats and think to many of them are abused and neg...
I am a new landlord on some out of state houses, thus I hired a management company. Today, the mgmt company asked me to approve a potential tenant for one of my homes. Single lady with two teenage kids. She has a c...
Hello everyone -- this is my first post here on the BP site.My partner and I are looking into purchasing a boarding house and I wanted to see if anyone else would offer their opinion. The home is located among multi-f...
Attention Landlords and Property Managers
In my neck of the woods, we are having record setting extreme cold temperature that seem to keep lingering on and on. In the past, we are use to having a spike for ...
My Journey as an Investor: I started investing in buy and hold properties in May of 2014. Triggered by the loss of my 80 year old mother early that year, a lady with very minimum formal education- she had managed to...
I've been trying to think of the pros and cons of owning a SFH or MFH that is near a university, meaning the tenants will most likely be students. Obviously there is the risk of college students trashing the place, bu...
The other day I was having a discussion with some associates about the upcoming Presidential Election, and one of them brought up the Democratic Candidate Andrew Young and his Universal Basic Income Plan called "The F...
Hi everyone! I am new here and still relatively new to renting my house out, even though I've been doing it for about 7 years now. I'm only on my second set of tenants.My question/situation is:I rent my old house. The...
My goal is to purchase my first real estate investment property within 1 year.I have a well-paying job, good credit, no consumer debt (just my car, which I'm working to pay off), and I am working on a 20% downpayment ...