My wife and I began renting a one-family house in New Jersey in February 1986 and have paid rent every month without fail and have maintained our tenancy as model tenants without incident.

We had a one-year lease for...

It seems that there is more and more talk about how any future housing bubble will be prevented. Bankers and monetary officials are discussing using interest rates and other means to prevent this in the future.

I do...

Yesterday I found fresh human waste in the toilet at the REO I have under contract. Today I was there with the mold specialist and we found food remnants and some drug paraphernalia.

House is owned by a mega-bank and...

It seems that many landlords go to the unit to pick up rent. Is this to check on the property? Does anyone have the tenant just mail the rent?

Ok I placed out maybe 70 signs out over the weekend to sell a house that needs a lot of work. They were the homemade looking kind that said "OWNER FINANCING, No Bank-Must Sell" To the most part code enforcement have p...

Hi guys,

Does anybody do long distance investing ? For instance owning property in another country or continent and really counting on property management.

Opinions or experiences, let me know

In my retail practice, I kinda enjoy it when I show homes being offerred by another flipper. Gives me a chance to critique their work, and sometimes pick up a thing or two about what fixtures are "in", what staging s...

A guy I'm partnered with recently finished a direct mail campaign of 30,000 postcards and didn't get a single deal. He has been in the business a long time and has closed hundreds of deals but recently direct mail h...

The market is frothy and cap rates have compressed. I am looking at the prices that large multifamily owners are paying and it makes me scratch my head a little bit. Buying at a five or six cap without much room for a...

Hey BP, I have been looking at a couple online savings accounts to park some money in. Ally savings rate is 0.60% if I am correct. I also saw Chime.com but didn't know how reliable it was. It's APY is 1.00% and it als...