I bought a 1 bedroom condo in 2005 for $135k. It’s just outside of Philly on the “Main Line”. It’s an affluent area with blue ribbon schools in a great location within walking distance to town and the train station in...

So I'm now ready to start the pre-approval process to know what's my spending power as a first time home buyer. With rates going up in the last two years you could only imagine how scares it can be. What are things th...

Student rentals make good buy-and-hold investments, or else people would've stopped buying them a long time ago. But what are the pros and cons associated with a student housing investment compared to a traditional bu...

I'll likely write about this on the blog in more detail, but this week I closed on a refinance of the last private money balloon that I had...  Brandon Turner tells me I can retire now, and while I don't know about th...

Sorry to jump the forum like this with no history here, but I'm desperate for advice.I'm under contract to buy a fourplex in salt lake city (hot market), and the inspections have been a little nightmarish. I can still...

Hi everyone!

Long time member, semi-first time poster. Here’s my situation: I was bitten by the real estate bug in my senior year of college (2-ish years ago) after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. After a long time of rea...

Hello all,

I am a casual RE investor who has been to BP.com several times to read archives, but now have a unique situation with my primary residence that I'm hoping someone can advise me on.

My wife an...

As an experienced real estate investor, having already owned dozens of properties and a real estate brokerage, I found instant wisdom in Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad."  I read the book and thought, "This guy ...

I've been reading posts here on BP for the past few hours where a lot of our members are defending both sides of two very classic RE investor battles:

1.) Good neighborhood or bad? (Low cash flow + hopeful appreciat...

I obviously like preforeclosures with 2 loans, to be able to short the second one and create more equity, but havent found a solid method to find homes that have 2 loans. Right now I am just relying on luck from peop...