I know the "50% rule" is bandied about as gospel here in the forums, but haven't seen any actual, hard data that says that operating expenses tend to be ~50% of gross rent income. I'd like to verify this number is, in...

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@Mindy Jensen and @Scott Trench have been buying and selling houses for a collective thirty years. In First-Time Home Buye...

So, your tenant made it through the screening process and moved in.

What kind of dumb things are they saying now?

Petty requests?

Requests to remodel?

Requests for upgraded appliances?

Whining about the internet...

So for the last year or so, I have been thinking more about physical health. I’ll be 50 in less than a year. Overall I do not personally know any active, long-term investors that actually smoke. Maybe they are there I...

So I owe two homes that I'm renting out, one tenant is paying just fine but the other tenant owes me two months of non-payment and are not paying since she's been unemployed. If she applies for unemployment, she'd be ...

Hi,Firstly I'd like to thank the whole BP community for making a place with such great resources for RE rookies and vets.But I have been wondering, has anyone gotten burned by another forum member? Obviously I wouldn'...

I am viewing duplexes in Massachusetts where we tend to have a lot of older homes.  The properties in my price range all seem to have a common issue being that they are older (we're talking 1880's - 1910's) and Realto...

Ready Set.....I was just going to shoot a quick video about our demo process, but I REALLY like this house so decided to document the whole flip on video.  We just started demo today and made EXCELLENT progress. Shoul...