I currently own 2 rentals and am always conscious of the scalability.  My cleaners have been missing a few small things as of late, and it seems to be sucking up some time and energy.  My initial solution was a checkl...

My wife and I made our first real estate move and purchased our first property ever!I've been reading and getting my book smarts, but we both agreed that at some point we were just going to have to go for it and start...

For all of the successful Buy and Hold investors:What percentages do you use for the following when evaluating a potential buy and hold income property:1) Cap Ex2) Management3) Vacancy4) RepairsThanks in advance!

Definite noob here, and after scouring markets across the country for months, I've finally honed in on one I feel good about. I since located an agent using Zillow's "Contact an Agent" form. In the market I'm looking ...

While reading over the local real estate news this morning, I stumbled across a headline that made me do a double-take and drop my spoon into my bowl of delicious honey nut cheerios:Sacramento Not On List Of Best Mark...

I have been toying with the idea of buying a food franchise, and have been working towards it for last couple of years.  I calculated my current debt to income ration at 37%. It does take into account my current salar...

Hey BP! not having much luck getting responses in the forums, but I'll keep trying. I have been thinking about the worse case or "nightmare" tenant situation. This of course involving extensive amounts of purposeful d...