I'm looking at some data to identify the best areas to buy and hold. I'm less familiar with buying in some of these areas - so I thought I'd reach out. These zipcodes offer really high rental yields even accounting fo...

Hello Everyone,

I am contemplating putting in an offer for a 170 year old home which has been split into 4 apartments. The main benefit of this house is its location: 1 minute walk to the areas prominent un...

Our architect has done a good job helping us draw up plans to rehab a wing of an 1880 property (including some tear down and re-creating) and suggested working with one of the three contractors he often uses. The cont...

How does one decide how much capital to invest in their first deal? What percentage of your total assets should go towards a down payment for deal #1? I feel I should plan for the worst and be as conservative as possi...

OK- Everyone knows I root for the underdog (namely non BCS teams) and my heart belongs to BYU. Good weekend.
BYU holds Univ Wash and Heisman candidate Jake Locker to 17 points and zero in 2nd half. This is with a...

If you have little to no experience with rental property (just bought a book on landlording) and had $100,000 to invest only in real estate, where and how would you invest it?
1. buy as big a multi unit complex th...

My Drawing of my outsourcing of short sale transactions

I know I didn't invent this stuff, but I wanted to organize my process. Here's how it works.

I train Realtors / Agents to bring me their potential short sale ...

I'm wondering if the group can point me in the right direction. I recently purchased my first rental with a traditional loan in my name. I recently got it rented and wanted to put it in the name of my LLC, so I filed ...

Hi guys,

I am a bit embarrassed for asking such a simple question and feel like I should know the answer already but I guess if I don't ask I will never know....

I need to do some serious asset/liability protection...

Hello BP,

My name is Eric and I am from St. Louis, MO. I have been lurking on BP for about 3 months now and wanted to share my story.

Graduated college a year ago and found myself working crappy j...