So I have been reading and reading about REI and wanting to get into it. Read ABC of Real Estate Investing and now on Cashflow Quadrant, to be followed by BP's UGB. From all the podcasts and all the reading I have don...

Poverty is near 1960s levels again

No worries, Obama is on top of it.

"The most important anti-poverty effort is growing the economy and making sure there are enough jobs out there," Obama said Friday at a White Ho...

Hello All, I'm leaning towards the strategy of house hacking and focusing on paying off the mortgage of the house within 5-10 years.   I'll be paying it off with my wife. We are 28 and on buying in about 3-4 years (we...

One thing I've been trying to do yearly is predict my local market (DC/Baltimore). Even when you are wrong, I always think it's a good exercise to figure out how to think about your local market (where your blind spot...

Well it's happened.  people are applying to rent our units with their emotional support pitbulls and other animals . Of course we follow all fair housing laws . but what we need to do is weed out people that have legi...

Hello BP community,
I am an out-of-state newbie investor with a rental that is currently on the market in Bluffton SC. I have posted the listing on all major sites like Zillow, FB marketplace, apartments.com, Craigsl...

How do you equate a potential renter with no fico with a low fico potential renter? For me anyone with a fico below 560 is probably a life long deadbeat, and anyone with no credit file, probably is also a dead beat, b...

Hey Everyone -

I was just reading a new member introduction from @Howard Scarrott , where he mentioned the challenges of investing while working full-time and I thought I'd solicit advice from the rest of o...

Did anyone see the sub prime meltdown coming?,did anyone see the housing market crash coming?,did anyone see our top financial institutes go belly up coming? and did anyone see this coming when Wall Street crashed int...

Hi all,My name is Brian and I've been lurking around on these forums for about a week. I'm currently 25 years old and am making about ~130k in my day job. I'm located in New England. I guess my question to you all tha...