Hi everyone,I recently purchased my first investment property in South Bend, Indiana with a Section 8 tenant. I hired a property management team to handle everything since it’s out of state. It has been two months a...

Hi! I’m a new investor and am curious if it is standard to get a $100 showing fee from my real estate agent when I want to see a house with him again after the initial showing. For my particular case, I want a contrac...

HELOC Application - Boarder vs. Rental Income: Unable to qualify for higher Equity credit lineI initially requested a set amount on my HELOC application but lender has capped it at $30K less than requested based on d...

I know this can be a touchy subject for some but out of curiosity what has been your range of income throughout your real estate career? ( feel free to use rough estimates) And what were your income streams coming from?

Hey all,My in-laws have their [Chinese] restaurant listed in the Los Angeles area (they own the business but are leasing the space they're in currently) and don't really seem to have a valuation of their restaurant. I...

One click. One-tenth of a second later, $73,000 disappeared into the ether and two Phoenix home sales were derailed.It was no accident. Homebuyers across the country are being targeted in custom-tailored email scams a...

The Supreme Court delivered a major victory to the retail real estate industry on Thursday, ruling that states can require most online retailers to collect and remit sales taxes. This overturns an earlier decision hol...

Bigger Pockets Community,
Before the COVID-19 crisis, my investing partner and I were analyzing deals for neighborhood strip centers in our home region.  What a difference a month (or three) makes.  Over the past sev...

We had a homeowners insurance claim, insurance only partly paid the contractor and deemed them over charging and not following industry standards. The contractor put a lien on this property for a dollar amount over th...

After selling rental properties to investors for 20 years, the common denominator why people hate rentals is because they don't like managing the rentals. I always tell investors to spend their time educating, improvi...