Just moved to Park City, UT. My fella and I bought our first place, a townhome, 8 months ago. We want to buy a neighboring place to keep as a vacation rental or long term rental. It’s $380k. To my surprise, our real e...

Hi BP world, if my wife and I are diligently saving around 1/2 of our paycheck for 20% down SFH deals (total of seven is the goal- two down, five to go), we may find ourselves low on personal reserves from time to tim...

Hi BPer,For those with self directed IRA experience, can you explain what is the UDFI (Unrelated Debt Financed Income Tax) impact on real estate investment using self directed IRA?Thanks,-Chan-

Hi everyone, I am fairly new to real estate investing. I am from a small town and have family that invests in rental property, but on a very small scale. Currently I have one rental that cash flows about $6500/year th...

Our section 8 tenant had a death in the family, and unable to pay this month's tenant portion. As a new investor, I wanted to begin prepping for what to expect going forward. We did issue a letter (reminder) of paymen...

Hello and thank you in advance,New to the website! I recently purchased a house where I plan on adding a home addition. This is my first time building a new structure so I asked a GC to help. The request for the GC wa...

I found a FSBO and am preparing to make an offer.  Asking price is $65k and I have $40-45k cash available to put into it.  Question is, how do I finance this?  I would love to put 50% down and get a 10 year mortgage f...

I just graduated college in May and started work at a new job. My fiancé and I were able to buy a foreclosed house in Hanover, PA in April for $135k that needed about $10k-15k worth of work.  We bought it with convent...

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In the spirit of We Buy Houses model, would you hire a millennial?

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What should I look for in a roofer other than the standard contractor “licensed, bonded, insured”? What’s a reasonable price for Seattle or other HCOL markets? I have 4 layers of roof. Over read J Scott’s estimating r...