For those of you who practice holiday gift-giving to tenants, what ideas do you have for a gift? To start:Gift card to a neighborhood restaurant or coffee shopA book (about what?)Gift card to an airline (e.g. my tenan...

Ucla recently covered this topic. LA has 85 hoods and the population is predicted to grow 30% by 2030. The city is looking for solutions to help with the housing shortages including allowing granny flats in backyards....

I live in Virginia in the metropolitan DC area.  I have dealt with many real estate agent trying to buy property or involved with friends or family in their purchases.  I noticed that just about every agent has nice l...

There's another thread going on about LLC vs. higher liability insurance.

I'm just wondering if any of you have ever been sued by your tenants? If so, what happened?

Some people are setting up an LLC on each house. ...

As you can tell from the title I'm trying to decide whether I should lower my rent or not. Here's my situation.

I have a class A property that I currently rent for 2800/mo. It is kind of niche for the area as I rent ...

We have a young single woman who is a tenant in one of our properties who moved in fall 2012. She's a nice tenant and responsible. There was an incident a few nights ago when a big fight broke out on the street in fro...

The title of this post may get me into a little bit of hot water, but I ask that any moderator read a little further before drawing conclusions. I hope this term helps to serve as motivation to other investors, and th...

Hello all! I was just thinking before I go to a new small bank and inquire about financing and opening new accounts, how important are the clothes I wear? Let me tell you about my everyday work attire, I’m blue collar...

Am I successful or am I an example of “what not to do”? This was my original introduction post.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/55/topics/94312-busy-noobie-would-like-to-invest---no-really-i-am-busyI actually ende...

BEFORE WE START: This is not my success story. This is the success story of @Steven Kwan. EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THISSteven- feel free to chime and and help us out here!***Full disclosure: Steven purchased property th...