I got one condo under contract (buy & hold). After receiving the condo questionnaire I found this condo is a non-warrantable. I was able to find a local bank by searching for properties that closed in the same com...

This flies in the face of everything that we have ever learned about retirement accounts.  So I want to start this by stating that it is stupid for 99% of the people out there to cash out retirement accounts but I wou...

I have lived in the San Francisco bay area for the last 15 or so years, and am anxious to start doing some buy-and-hold investing.  However, it seems that price-to-rent ratios are solidly over 30 in my area, and gener...

Hello all...I've been reading BP for a while and joined about a week ago. My wife and I live and work  in the middle of Silicon Valley. We are originally from Texas and we own a SFR in Las Vegas that is rented (with a...

I am under contract on a quadplex near a university that is 4 hour drive from me. After speaking with some property managers, I'm realizing they really know how to tack on the fees... 10% (expected) of all revenues, 1...

Hey guys, I've been contemplating this when I see it but what do YOU mean when you say you're looking for an investor friendly agent? In my experience working with investors they usually mean they want discount agents...

When I asked about the status of a deal my agent was trying to line up for me, he (to his credit) told me he and his partners just put it under contract and that he would keep looking for a deal for me.I’m new to rent...

Hey everybody, 
I'd love to get some feedback from you about a new strategy that we are getting ready to employ.  But first I need to give a little background.  Over the past 5 years my business partner and I have bu...

I am 50 and have a goal to replace my income, or at least a lot of it by 60.  My wife and I have strong W2s and are closing on a 300K HELOC this week.  We are in process of building an Airbnb (Den Modern Cabin in Adir...