Hi EveryoneI'm new to real estate investing and this is also my first forum post on BP. I purchased land about 6 months ago and my goal is to develop the land. More specifically, I want to build my own home. I've gott...

Dear BP community,I just made an offer on a fourplex and am looking for negotiation advice.  The property is in really good shape and had a new roof done on 2014.  The area is a B- neighborhood so it will not be too d...

Hi everyone!

I just opened escrow on my first property! It's a 3 unit, single building home and I am super excited about it. It's an old 1910 California craftsman style home with 2700 sqft in a historic nei...

I am working on a long term buy and hold plan..  SFH's here in Nor cal are SO overpriced.  I am 40, 3 kids, full time job... I envision doing Property management at least in the first decade, but do a lot of work myse...

There's been a lot of discussion on the forums as it relates to differentiating bad debt from good.  The most common view on BP is that any debt which does not produce investment returns is bad debt.I, for the most pa...

I would like to deploy some money into Multi family 10 to 50 units in the next couple of years.  From what I read it seems to fall into 2 categories.  1.  Either you have a lot of money and buy one on your own.  Or2. ...

It's law, the Supreme Court held that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is valied under the taxing authority.

Yes, I know healthcare is one word....

However, states can opt out with the Medicaid portion. Now what?

For buy and hold investors out there, how do you guys think about appreciation and how do you factor it in to your buying and selling decisions, if at all? What key factors do you use to measure the potential for appr...