What did you all do before you started investing? What jobs did you have so you could raise the funds for a downpayment and such. I am 15, i want to own rental properties and am wondering what i could do to raise the ...

Hi there! Instead of listing a property I'm flipping, I want to sell with creative financing to my contractor. He doesn't qualify for a loan right now but thinks he will in 12-18 months. There is no mortgage on the pr...

My tenant in Florida destroyed unit (duplex) upon notice of eviction. Broke windows, punched holes in all the walls, damaged appliances.  Do any of you file legal action to collect or do you let it go?  I have a prope...

I've been a realtor for 5 years this May and I've really been dissatisfied with the job for 2 1/2 years. I've been trying to work myself out of that side of the job and into investing. I'm trying to focus on short s...

Although I've made massive equity gains from my real estate portfolio of single family homes, in just a short period of time, it seems to me that too much of the proceeds go to transaction costs when selling. I have n...

Hello out there BP, I am trying to decide whether or not I have a case against my property management company. I've been reading some of the forum posts here on the subject of civil lawsuits against PM's and what I've...

I had a group come by this morning to look at a house. They were very normal, polite and no alarm bells went off.
After they left there was a knock on the door a couple of minutes later and it was the husband/boyfrien...

This is a property that more or less fell in my lap. I'm a wholesaler so I only know residential, but I have a probate lead that is a commercial building. It's mixed-use, with a retail, laundromat, two industrial sh...

I would like to get some perspectives around the benefits of flipping a house compared to buying and renting. In terms of the a first time investor which is a safer play?

Also wondering if the first property...

The market in our city, Reading, PA, is great to buy a 'great deal'.   There is an abundant properties available for cheap, and the rent is high.   The school district isn't so great and neither is the neighborhood.  ...