In 1992 I was negotiating the purchase of a 4,400 sq ft commercial building. The seller had recently retired and offered to include an adjacent lot with a second building for no cost if I could close within two month...

Full disclosure: this long drawn out situation is over, but it is still worth sharing so other members can learn from my blunders.  I rented out an SFR to a corporate leasing service (they rented out the rooms on thei...

Hello all! I am new to this forum but have learned a lot so far. It really has been like drinking from a firehose with all the info that is available on this website. I am new to real estate investing but I see the va...

Looking to maybe invest in my first rental property there and am being given almost too good to be true rental income estimates and wanted to validate with real owners to see see if what I am being told by property ma...

There are a lot of posts and Youtube videos on using Facebook to generate motivated seller leads, but most of these only cover a small part of the overall marketing campaign. Online marketing has evolved a lot in the ...

I had my city inspection today to receive a rental permit and it did NOT go as planned. I spent the last month doing renovations and I got my unit looking GREAT (at least what I thought)...City inspector comes in to c...

I'd like some replies from BP members on a hypothetical question. These are really wierd times with unprecedented changes occurring in the economy regularly.
Here is the question. If someone has done all the nec...

I haven't read through all of the BiggerPockets blogs and it would take forever to catch up so I was wondering what topics everyone would like to read more about. Raising money, RE strategies, business entity setup, ...

I am new, have not bought my first property yet, but I have been a "businessman" for 20 years. I have a higher than average tolerance for risk, so long as it is "calculated" risk. For the sake of this question, assume...

I house hacked by the room for 4 years. As a landlord I’ve had some situations I never thought I would experience.I would like to know the crazy stories of others. I definitely have improved a lot my screening process...