I ran a screen and came across a 3/1.5 1130 sf house. I've played with some numbers and I figure with 20% down with a 4.75% note I would only have a monthly payment of about $100.

I looked the property up on the cou...

My husband and I are renting out first place (yay!). We have a few people lined up to see the place. But one of the best potential tenants on paper asked if we would do a 2 year lease for a slightly reduced rent. they...

Welcome to our Question of the Week! We have a lot of people who are entering the world of real estate investment who could use your wisdom. When evaluating a property, what are your automatic no or exclusion list ite...

Thanks for reading this post.I understand that setting up an LLC is not required in RE, and if anything it can be a pain to file returns depending on how you set up your LLC's.However, I am looking at a couple of prop...

Morning, Just wanted to get some opinions on how you all feel about buy & holds in college towns. I view these properties as MF even though they are technically SF. However, when renting to college students you ar...

My "mentor" told me to stop chasing FI and to get a secure job. Should I fire him? What should I do?

Not sure how many of you all have seen in the news, but New York is going full-on-socialist with expanding "tenant protections" across the entire state.NYC has had rent control for a while, from my understanding. But ...

I think this topic deserves its own thread. This might turn out to be a hard read because I copied and pasted quotes from another thread.

Bill and I started a discussion at the end of another thread with regard to...

IntroductionThe saga started almost a year ago (September 2014).  The relationship with long-term tenants we inherited two years prior had been sliding sideways for some time - their unit was the only one we had not r...

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There are some items in this article that I have VERY strong feelings about. Before posting them, I'd ...