I'm just about to close on my first rental property (house-hacking a duplex in a small town outside of San Diego, CA).  The previous Landlord raised rents 3-5% every year on this property, so it is currently rented fo...

12 Solid Rules of Real Estate Investing

1. Real estate is a long term investment
2. Cash flow, cash flow, cash flow
3. Do not let your emotions get in the way
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There must be a lot of trading going on in the secondary mortgage markets, because so many of our loans have changed hands recently and it has been super annoying. For example one of them has switched several times ju...

We get a lot of this, and sometimes, it really does baffle me. As my profile says, I'm an affordable-housing handyman landlord running a small outfit out here in Pittsburgh and doing what I do is NOT EASY. It's signif...

Federal Reserve reduced its economic outlook for 2009.

The central bank said it expects some business conditions to improve in coming months, but it also lowered its assessment of the economy for the full year and sa...

Hey Landlords and landladies! I'm sure each has seen many variation of tenants.I did want to "brag" on this SFH tenant of mine that calls me early to pay her rent with a smile. Wonderful! Same house I evicted a tenant...

Greetings BPI have been looking at AIRBNB.  Has anyone been able to scale an AIRBNB business?  There has been a lot of chatter on BP about it.  I am interested in hearing from anyone whose is doing it in scale and mak...

hello I am new to this and  looking at a property with cast iron pipes under the house built in 1957. There are no leaks. Was wondering how urgent is it to change to pvc? Also what would the total cost of replacing pv...