I hope this is the right forum. I have a contract on a short that I am pretty sure will go thru. The current owner wants to be my tenant. Can I lease to him? Is this considered some sort of fraud/collusion? I don...

How do lenders choose the appraisers?  I was told that lenders cannot simply pick whoever they want to now. This was different pre 2008.  Could some mortgage lenders out there weigh in on this process? 

Hello all! This is my first post, so I'm going to lay out my whole situation and I'd love some expert insight as to what I should do.  BLUF:  I have real estate, some investments and assets, and some inherited money i...

Okay, so my wife is reading about the horror stories of bad tenants and tells me that "We've been lucky".   My thoughts are that a horror story is more entertaining than a story about boring perfect tenants that take ...

I've recently been turned onto a possible source of passive income properties.  There's a mountaintop ski resort in West Virginia that sells condominiums within the resort and then has in-house property managers that ...

I have been looking and analyzing duplexes and triplexes in northern california for close to a year using the parameters I learned from Biggerpockets. I have found none that met the "good buy" parameters, and only a c...

What’s actually going on in the Cleveland Real Estate market?The investment market in Cleveland is still very strong and I forecast it will stay that way. The reason: we have a lot of investors coming from out-of-stat...

Just finished Rich Dad Poor Dad, and started reading the Biggerpockets UBG. Kiyosaki talked about fear of losing, and the UBG is already talking about fear.
Personally,  I would say yes I have a fear of losing.  But ...

Hi BP.! I am trying to narrow down the strategy I'd like to used to get started. As I look at properties around me, I am stuck between (1) entering REI with a flip to gain more investing captial and (2) acquiring a pr...

Got a unit that turned over and the tenant left the unit smelling real bad. Can't really put my finger on it but smells sort of like body odor, cigarette smoke and uncleaned clothes. Doesn't quite smell like they smok...