Hi everyone. I'm wondering what your thoughts are... I have a friend who is an agent and his broker usually makes him charge 6% of sales price for a listing in CA.  That's on the higher end of normal, as it seems mos...

Is it true that if I want to buy a house with cash it must be in a bank account for 2 months before I can purchase the home? (I was told saving it in my mattress won’t do me any good)

I have a duplex near a university.  It's close to the university but also close to the bad part of town.  It can be hard to find good tenants, sometimes we get lucky.I was living upstairs in the duplex and the managem...

TLDR; I prefer buying in a high interest rate environment and then refinancing in a handful of years, rather than buying in a low interest rate environment and refinancing in a handful of years.Wanted to share my thou...

I'll admit it ... I'm a collector. I really really like to buy real estate but I don't really like to sell it. That being said, I have a sneaking suspicion that I should be trading up, leveraging more, stacking, etc. ...

I vividly remember looking out of my bedroom window at the gleaming Devon tower in downtown Oklahoma City. We had just finished moving in and my wife and I were still caught up in the glam of living downtown. Our 725 ...

savethe1031.orgThe 1031 is one of the bedrock's of investing. Why isn't a network platform here of over 600,000 members in one voice telling representatives that they do not want a change to the 1031?

I have my first property. I’m going to put it online “for rent” this week. Any advice on questions I should ask potential tenants?

Hi BP!,I have been learning a lot lately from the community. Although, I am still in the search for the right first rental property for me, I went ahead and imagine different scenarios in my head.I read multiple discu...

First of all -- I apologize if this is in the wrong section.

I recently purchased a house, hoping to rent out the rooms for a while, to kill two birds with one stone -- start on the path to being a RE investo...