I recently went through finding a new tenant for my property. Am I allowed to use a private investigator to do a background check on potential tenants, WITHOUT letting the potential tenant know?

Did you see the Wall Street Journal article today?  Huge investigation of multifamily mortgage fraud.  One thing they did was fake occupancy by having radios playing in vacant units!  Several complexes are facing fore...

Hi all, new to the real estate investing arena but interested in starting. I’ve doing some research around my area for potential properties with needs for cosmetic/moderate improvements that I could flip, and I believ...

What can people tell me about this Investment Organization?    WOuld appreciate all good and bad comments.   It seems like a good plan but concerned about cost and also are they just making money on getting others to ...

Hello, my wife and I are looking into the 40+ unit apartment building arena. We have looked into a couple of handfuls of buildings and are having a harder time deciding if it is a good deal or not (we have only bought...

 Did some driving for dollars near one of my properties in Oakland and found a boarded up property. I looked up the property and found the owner's mailing address. Sent some letters and then went over to the owners ho...

Happy New Year BP!  We have two rentals locally and are looking into new markets since our local market is higher priced vs rents.My question is, can we write off (for taxes) the cost (or some of the cost) of travelin...

Wondering aloud here and looking for help. I need a service that can provide a mailing address of a landlord by providing their name and zip code. I've looked into the services offered by Accurint from mike Nelson's p...

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Has anyone used BOA to refinance or purchase their home? There’s an interesting investigation against the company that claims BOA significantly overcharges homeowners for routine home-purchase appraisal...

I'm trying to locate a person on a deed to a home near me. I've gone to the county, I've used numerous research websites online (UCC connect, staterecords.org etc., I tried contacting local senior citizen homes as wel...