Hello all,In your experience have you found Zillow or any other site's online estimate of a property to be fairly accurate once you had a formal appraisal completed?If not, how far off was it? I know they can't accoun...

Hi.  My name is Mike Kohan, I'm a husband and father, a career helicopter pilot and now real estate investor.  I started investing in real estate 5 years ago with a lease/option purchase close to home for a tenant, wh...

I just bought two duplexes which I discuss in the forum post here. I normally do the demo work myself, but since I'm working on some other things at the moment, I decided to throw an ad up on Craigslist and see if I c...

Our property manager hired a plumber to repair a dishwasher in one of our single family homes. This plumber had done jobs for the property manager in the past and was reasonably priced from what our property manager t...

If you didn't catch the "Seeing Greene" episode recently, an excellent question was presented that I thought would be worth discussing. Every area you invest in has risks of natural disasters of all kinds, but these d...

From the rise of the iBuyers, Zillow looking to flip houses, and now Amazon partnering with a behemoth brokerage, is this the beginning of the end?https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/amazon-real-estate-giant-look-to-dis...

For years now, we have all known that a good portion of the traditional real estate agents job is unnecessary.  This is a heated topic for a lot of people particularly if you are an agent.  The best argument for the t...

Good morning BP family. I hope everyone is realizing your RE investing goals.  We are considering purchasing a 9 unit multifamily. All of the units are 1 bedroom.  Historically we were discouraged from purchasing prop...

Hi all - I feel that we're about to see some major migration shifts coming from the expensive urban cities such as NY, Seattle, SF given the new work from home policies that is becoming permanent. It started with the ...

I have a moral dilemma with the idea of investing in rougher neighborhoods. It seems like the houses there are the only ones that a) are within my price range ($75k-200k) and b) return good cash flow.

I struggle b...