I ordered a book lately on RE investing from Amazon, and the guru started out with the typical hype, selling the sizzle and not the steak.  You know, the whole, imagine yourself living the dream, not having to work,...

Goal: 
Retirement for my wife and myself by the end of 2020. (ie. $7000/monthly cash flow)Plan: 
Purchase and Hold inexpensive duplex properties primarily in the florida area.Breakdown: 
Year 1-savings and credit b...

What am I doing wrong?  I've lost 6 REO properties in the last 8 months.  I've worked with two separate Realtors, gotten advice from more experienced investors, etc. It just doesn't seem to work out.  When placing an ...

We have tenants that moved in October of last year, 3 months ago. We are new homeowners, and new parents. We bought the duplex that we have been living in for the past five years, and we are living in one side of it...

What do you guys do when your contractors or subs up their prices per hour or per job for an exactly same type of work. Do you question them and try to get them back down, bite the bullet and pay if they do a good job...

I have a nice single family 3/2 rental house that I bought last year. It rents for $1450 and is in the top 75% of the micro neighborhood, also an area where rents have been increasing 10% a year lately. Time to buy th...

My general contractor is quoting me:$32,000 to prep, paint exterior of the home$19,000 to replace asphalt roof$23,000 to prep, paint the interior$19,000 wooden floor refinishing (polishing, filling in any cracks)The h...

I just put in an offer on a house that I plan to live in and flip over 2 years. However, the house was in the middle of a "rehab" when the owner lost his job...and so parts of the house are torn apart. If I win on thi...

A while back @Jay Hinrichs posted about the the real estate market levelling off http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/199...and I got to thinking today about what happens after that. What are my plans to han...

I was hoping someone with lien expertise can help me understand how they work.Background: a neighbors house has been abandoned for quite sometime now (2009?), property is in pre-foreclosure but bank/company "servicing...