If this is in the wrong place, please move it to where it belongs. My situation is as follows.My life has been a successful track of backwards. I always jump into stuff the backwards way.  It's been happening since I ...

Is it illegal to offer discounts of say, like a $25.00 discount for people who have good credit, discount for having held the same job with the same employer for over a year, a discount for not having any criminal rec...

Hey everyone,Can I hold a note for the balance of a lease option fee? And how would I go about doing it? For example: I have a seller that is willing to lease option their property, I find the lease option buyer and a...

I'm about to purchase my first distressed note on a property near Chicago for a whopping 1.98% of UPD it'll cost $977 or so. Original loan value was for $52,000 the property is worth $35,000 after doing some research....

I have $500,000 cash that I'd like to deploy into real estate. I am thinking about going the turnkey route. My question has to do w/ financing. I am looking at potentially buying SFRs in the 100K range. If I were t...

Interesting TIME article about root cause of the US financial crisis .... not sure I agree but put a different spin on what I've read and believed before:

"There is no doubt that the pressure on the U.S. financial sy...

My property manager charges me with 20% premium of any repair costs when they act as general contractor to sub contractors.

On top of that, I received a letter that they hired an inhouse handyman for unlicensed min...

I have a real estate investor friend who needs advice. He has an SFR rental property and discovered after the most recent tenants vacated, that the property was nearly destroyed. Bid for repairs came back at $10K.

F...

I need some help on this issue ASAP please!!!

I have a vacant property, newly renovated, which has been broken into a few times in just a couple of weeks. I need recommendations for security measures and things to h...

Hello bp,

I recently graduated undergrad and am currently in law school. I am a pawn to the system and have seen what I pay and my friends pay in college towns. Especially ones that are built around small towns. Big ...