My partner and I are in escrow on a home with an “ADU”  in Washington state. After a competitive offer process, we had our offer accepted! Here we are a couple days later, and we just discovered that the ADU isn’t leg...

Hello all BP'ers!I am looking for a financial advisory to help me with my roadmap in the REI and FI world. I have a lot of work to do and need some help. The financial advisors I have consulted with so far have been m...

I am under escrow with this duplex, 2 bd 1 bath each and am taking on this new role as landlord. I am curious to discover any advice anyone has to offer while being a new landlord. Can/Should I use a generic tenant co...

In my research of trying to discover the best asset protection strategies, I have come to a conclusion that an "equity split" (as I've heard it referred to) strategy is the best in terms of simplicity, cost and mainte...

I recently had a tenant move out. He claims that in a spare bedroom, which was hidden by a bed, when he moved the bed out he discovered an extremely raised section of the hardwood floors. The "peak" of the raised sect...

All, Recently, I marked (actually paid someone licensed to do that) the corners of my new lot. After analyzing GIS data, I discovered that my neighbor’s house, garage, and shop are built with minimal permissible setba...

We located an abandoned property.  It had a phone number on the notice of abandonment.  We called to find that it was a bank, but they had no record of the house and or notice.  We tried the courthouse, records and ta...

Many "Guru's" will say real estate will be dead by all the big/private firms buying into the real estate market , eventually flooding it where they hold all the inventory and control the market. Many topics are discu...

Looking for any insight into purchasing 100 year old houses as rentals. I imagine it would not be that much of an issue if everything has been updated/renovated, but is that not so simple in identifying the underlying...

A friend of mine is looking to buy a personal residence in California (it's a hot market and most sellers refuse inspection contingencies in contracts, so buyer due diligence needs to be done upfront prior to cont...