I'm in the middle of a dispute with some tenants. The building's manager, whom I've known and worked with for 7 years, says that these tenants seem nice/normal and she hasn't had any problems with them.Unfortunately t...

My worst loss was $100,000 trading foreign exchange. I made $100,000 one year then lost $200,000 the next.

My worst real estate deal I lost about $25,000 on. Paid too much, rented to dirt bag tenant for way...

I am not very creative at looking for off market deals and generally spend most of my time looking at new zillow listing. I save my buy box properties and if they get 30+ days old I make an offer. I usually call the l...

Need some help with this one...Grandfather owns a duplex, he is 90 and not in the best of health.  He owns the duplex outright (in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago) and has 4 children, one of which has a power of attorne...

We rented a vacation rental property in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego from 1/16/16 - 4/16/16.  We paid a $2,500 deposit and $2,500/month for a total of $10,000.  Upon departure, we went through a walk-thro...

So, I was doing some research after reading the most recent thread on this topic, and I'm wondering if this is accurate.  Based on my new understanding, a tenant claiming to have a service animal can only be asked two...

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I had a unit up for rental (a townhome) and received an application from Zillow which showed that she has no criminal history and credit score was good as well. I did all my other due diligence like asking for...

I was doing some reading about the 2008 bubble burst of the real estate market in the book "The AfterShock Investor" by David Wiedmer. He explains the cause of the crash, which we should all know about anyway, but...

As a rehabber, I'm willing to borrow money at more than the usury-limited rate of 10% (I live in California). I have seen posts in the past indicating that private money can be loaned at higher interest rates if the b...

I don't think I've been this cautious in a long time. I think there are still good opportunities but some markets are just bonkers. I'll caveat this by saying it's not just real estate, all investable asset classes se...