I usually do a 1 year lease, but I have a vacancy I'm getting ready to fill, and I'm tossing around the idea of offering a slightly discounted rent with a two year lease.  I've heard that if you offer a great property...

Costar sees signs of multifamily trouble: Multifamily cap rates risingLooks like investors finally starting to demand real cap rates and multifamily will begin trading on present performance and not future rents. Here...

Is it worth it investing in Northern New Jersey, I want to start investing into rental properties but don't know if its a good idea to invest in Northern New Jersey. I know it's possible, but does the cash flow add up...

We had some realtors tell us that appraisals were coming in 100-150k lower than sales price in Raleigh which is an issue for us with financing.  Is this actually happening?

So as I understand, a CAP rate is based on NOI. However, I’ve also been told that CAP rates have to do with risk. Question, why would I want a higher CAP rate if it brings increased risk. For example taking a 6 CAP...

Tenants I just evicted completely maliciously destroyed my house from taking kitchen cabinet doors, shower door, lighting fixtures. fridge, broke windows and more but the worst was writing in permenant marker vulgar a...

Good morning all investors,i am interested in real estate and I don't know where to start. I prefer buy and sell instead of renting for now but I don't know who I can hire for repairs and remodeling if needed, would i...

Hi BP Community!I'm so grateful to have stumbled across this fine group of people on the internet. It's truly been a gift to glean so much wisdom from both the site's original content and the forums to help me get sta...

Five hours ago our company received an email saying that after insurance underwriting did an inspection on our rental property that we needed to have a roof inspection done and a couple things done to the roof.  They ...

This is a pretty broad question and I'm sure it depends on the type and level of insurance the landlord buys, but it may bring up a nice discussion, so when is landlord insurance used outside of a major fire or disast...