I have been interested in utilizing investor Self Directed IRAs for some time for my Real Estate projects. Reading Raising Private Capital by Matt Faircloth has convinced me it's time to start looking into this, but I...

I have an issue with a property that I own in Brooklyn that just came to light when I decided to sell.  I purchased the house as a TWO family, as was stated in the contract, but now finding out that I can't get a Lett...

I recently started a new job for a partnership of wholesalers. I will be working as a property scout to dig up deals for them.

The purpose of this thread is to document my experience for everyone else to observe a...

Hi All.  I'm looking at a couple multifamily properties in Northern Michigan (local to me).  They don't seem like good buys, but I'm concerned that I may just have my expense numbers wrong.  Below is one of them.  Am ...

I see this question every day at least once on the forums so I thought I would answer it for the majority of people. I was going to make this a blog post but couldn't figure out how to do it. What I am going to outlin...

I think, for the amount of work and time that the team was there, it was fair, but here's the story.We took over a large home a couple of months ago. They had a cleaner come a couple times, but the couple lived, well,...

I bought my first property earlier this year in Chicago and it has a sump pump in the basement unit. Being that this is my first property and I have never dealt with sump pumps before I had someone come out and look a...

Hello again. Brand new investor. I keep getting caught up in these "webinars" which most have really good information, but they ALL have holes. They all have a sob story and they all make you pay for their "secret". H...

We became accidental landlords ten years ago. It has been a terrible investment. We are thinking of selling it and am embarrassed to admit I didn't know about depreciation recapture till recently. WTH?

We would now...