Recent rent control laws in California, New York, and another states reflect challenging times for real estate investors. Efforts to protect low-income residents in fast growing cities have led to the passage of a raf...

I am curious to get some opinions on rooming houses. (A single house, rented per room /w shared kitchen/bath) Typically D or C occupants. Rented month to month. Apparently no vacancy in the property I'm looking at and...

I just had a lease expire mid September. I had talked with the tenant about renewal and she indicated they would sign the new lease. Nothing in the lease was changed. I met with the tenants...and they refused to sign ...

UsaToday had an article the other day on social changes in our country.
The % of babies born to single moms has risen about 1% per year each of the last 5 years. It now stands at over 45% of babies born. My guess...

The location preferences of young adults hold large consequences for real estate investors.  The trend for the past 10+ years has been that the millennial generation (those born between 1981 and 1996) are opting to li...

First time for me so I’m looking for advice on the best way to handle having an elderly tenant die. She was the only name on the lease and family is saying rent may be late

Please share your "Why?"
Here's mine: Personally, I believe in real estate investing  because I don't believe in job security.
This has been my experience...I have worked since I was 15 years old, mostly for small b...

Hello Bigger Pockets Family!I have recently been reading the book, The House Hacking Strategy by Craig Curelop and an interesting question that I thought about earlier was:In a single-family residence where you rent b...

I just moved to the US last year and am a property virgin here.I looked at a foreclosure a couple of months ago and met a realtor there who got me to sign what I know now as an `exclusive buyers contract`, no excuse a...

Gold broke the $1000 an ounce barrier last week and is zooming up over $1100 as I write this. It seems to me that the money that the Fed's loose monetary policy is going to come home to roost. If I recall the 1970's a...