My wife and I own a couple of properties in Los Angeles (1 single family, 1 4-plex). After many, many discussions, we've decided to use our resources and move forward in expanding our long term portfolio and purcha...

I purchased a duplex 1.5 years ago. We did some rehab which involved new brick work on the exterior and a new deck. This was so we could replace garage door lintels, which was mandated by the borough. This was paid fo...

The single-family housing market looks like it might be doomed all over again. Well, if not doomed, then the Death Star is bearing down on Alderaan.Why the pessimism? There are two reasons.First, there appears to be a...

 have always enjoyed challenging widely held beliefs, probably because so many of them fall apart upon closer examination. Most recently, my contrarian radar started going off in the summer as talk of a Canadian housi...

Hey everyone I'm curious how many of you maintain a separate reserve fund for your properties so as to handle longer vacancies, or other things that come up like with COVID where tenants/payments might get a little sc...

Hi all, I'm up in Alberta, Canada and it gets pretty cold here in the winter. I have buy/holds and I do some flipping but the market really slows down in the winter and that's not a time that I want to try and flip a ...

First and foremost, thank you for taking the interest & time in opening up this post to read! I'm a NAVY Veteran who last September took all my equity out if my inflated Southern California home and chose to begin...

Economic Update
(Monday, July 27, 2020)

This week is a good week for real estate investors (particularly if you have a house for sale). Existing houses sales are up, new home sales are up, inventories are down...

Aaaah! We're doing it. After listening to 200ish BP podcast episodes, my husband and I are buying our first out of state rental... a duplex. We own our primary and one rental in Long Beach, CA and are looking forward ...

I have a small 1 bedroom SFH . Rented it to an old guy who drank . Well his son moved in who was helping him , then the sons crack whore girlfriend moves in to the small place . Well the place was filthy 4 years ago ....