Okay here's the deal. I'm looking to invest in my first buy and hold property very soon and expand from there. I work as a nurse and I like what I do, it pays the bills, I have excellent job security and I can literal...

I am hoping someone will have some experience with HAP contracts and Section 8. I have a tenant who is currently in a lease with me for 3 more months. She advised me that she is leaving at the end of this month and Ho...

I am getting some pushback on the idea of recourse vs. non recourse loans from a banker I'm just about to go with. My accountant told me not to take out a recourse loan, one that allows for deficiency judgments (th...

Hello all...my friends, haters, new people,...everyone:)I often get comments on other threads about how I "hate" etc....so here I am...posting in the unlicensed broker forum! Here's what I tell new people about invest...

Looks like it's about 1K per transaction, but the 45 day limit of getting something under contract seems really unrealistic, almost pushing people to buy the first crappy deal. It takes time to find deals and since yo...

My husband threw this idea at me: What if we charge the tenants a little more for rent each month and gave them the 12th month for free? Here's how it would work:If rent is normally $900 per month, we charge them $982...

What should my Max offer be on this property??

Should I buy?

So my great aunt is getting up in age and her property is for sale, to me specifically at the moment. I have until the end of 2014 to purchas...

Closing at the end of the month on my first rental property. It's a duplex and wondering if I should encourage tenants to set up payment online. Was looking at sparkrent.com, it is only $1 per unit/month.

Has...

Hey BP-members!

I'm a young man from Copenhagen, Denmark in Europe. My American wife and I are planning to move to Austin with our newborn. She's from Houston, TX, but I have convinced her to move to Austin, TX.

We ...

Newbie question.I am looking at deals trying to break into the market.  My question is how do you know when to leave a property alone and when to go ahead and invest.  I've run the numbers they work.  The property has...