Hello BP,I started my real estate investment career a little over a year ago. I bought my first three properties within two months of each other. Two of these were turn key rentals and the other was a rental rehab tha...

The City of Boston recently enacted regulations that severely restrict property owners from renting out their homes by the night, unless the owner lives in the unit - a move aimed squarely at Airbnb.I don't have a dog...

Lately I have started to list my properties by myself. When saying by myself I mean either a flat fee service or using a realtor that his name is on the listing but my number and email are there and all communications...

I just finished reading Christine Karpinski's book 'How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner' . The slant of it was that if you manage yourself and use portals like Airbnb, vrbo, etc. you can break even or even get po...

I love to see the success stories on BP, but it’s also important to learn from mistakes in the past – and better to learn from someone else’s mistake than your own! Without sounding negative, lets spill some of our...

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I live in North Cal, been buying properties for a year, recently got interested in auction sales. I am hoping some of you could share some advice on how to buy from auction, (Trustee vs REO, tenant o...

Bought my first deal and now its rented! I have a full time JOB, I'm a very busy single mom and now I'm a full time LandLady :) Here are the #'s:Purchase Price: $78,900Down Payment: $7890Repair Costs: $1200PITI: $585R...

I own a rental property and the house has numerous mice. Professionals came out and said the house needs to be sealed for a total cost of $1,800. My wife went into the hospital and I cannot afford to spend $1,800. All...

Sorry for such a long post, but I'm semi-obsessed with this potential deal. I've been wanting to buy one of these brand new, all-brick duplexes for some time now. I tried to further break it down. All advice and...

I own a single Cabin in a vacation town in WA state that I use as a family vacation home and STR. When I first bought it 5 years ago I lived 2 hours away, had never owned an STR before and worked full time so it made ...