Me, my wife, and toddler are planning on buying a multi family home in the Phoenix valley in the next couple of years. Looking online, it seems like multi family homes are magnets for low income and sketchy areas. Eve...

I’m looking to take advantage of the VA loan for our next PCS/move and combine it with house hacking. My biggest concern is that we have multiple small kids and most multi-families don’t have a ton of rooms for famili...

I have been researching REI for the last year or so, and am feeling closer towards my first deal. I feel I have the funding resources, a decent understanding of deal analysis, and a handful of investor connections tha...

My wife and I are getting started in real estate. We don't have much background in the field yet. We've read a few books, and taken a short 2 day online class. She worked as an apartment office manager once upon ...

I've got a young couple living in a SFH built in the 1940s. Many of the walls in the house are masonry, so replacing plumbing is prohibitive. The bathtub has the old style valves—one for hot and one for cold, and t...

I am soon to be closing on a property that my wife and I and our two toddlers plan to rehab and move into and rent out our current house. We are looking at about $60k in Reno and updates. Considering doing a hard mone...

I'm in Wisconsin and I have a tenant that will be moving out of apartment in a few days.  As we get closer to them leaving they are getting more hostile and keep threating legal action unless they get 100% of security...

I have a rental property with a screened in porch, I've replaced one of the screens 3 times already in the last year. The same screen keeps breaking (I've had it checked by a screen company and they state that all wor...

My market is very low income. Lack of good paying jobs don’t allow for much home ownership and most rentals are so run down they practically need gutted, and most renters can only afford Section 8. Houses are uaually ...

I've wanted to ask this for a while but have been reluctant for fear the answer should be obvious, and/or it's been covered ad nauseum...so please accept my apology if either are true.

With the 3x rule, how is it aff...