Hi, I just bought my first rental property 2 weeks ago (I'm in Maryland), and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with my inherited tenants- any advice would be greatly appreciated!The property is a 3-unit building. 2 of...

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I'm in the process of sourcing my envelopes, paper, etc. for my direct mail campaign for Absentee Owners. My initial plan is to use a "handwritten" font for the marketing copy on the yell...

well this morning i bought my first set of stocks since 1997 or so  then got wiped out in the dot com bubble LOLI am up 142.00 dollars for the day..  when i look at all these companies trading at 52 weeks lows and 1.3...

Hello BP Community!In efforts to give back to the community, I wanted to document the process of acquiring my first turnkey property through Spartan Invest. I know when I was first researching the forums, case studies...

On December 2, I closed on a 7 unit apartment building. When I made the offer, I saw a lot of things, but the two most common were disaster and potential. Due to the size of the place, the insane income numbers, and t...

Hi BP! My name is Scott and I am just starting out my real estate investing venture this year. I find it to be imperative for all investors to look back on their past and understand how their formal educations have he...

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...

A turnkey home for 100k renting for 1k (1% rule) would net you worse than the stock market 16 years later. I went back through my 1099s and calculated my return and estimated closing costs, federal taxes, capital gain...

...Dumb.
[Sorry to be mean.  My comments as an owner -- rant ahead]
Seriously.  How much are you guys paying for your "lists".   How many of you think buying a list of: owners that got a red tag.  owners that got an...