Hello BP!I just wanted to share my plan for creating an unfair advantage for myself. Another title for this post could be "From adversity to advantage"1. Become a licensed contractor. In Michigan all I have to do is t...

Is it just me or are about 25% of all real estate investors, also engineers? As an Engineer myself I could be biased but curious if anyone has insight. I know folks usually have professional background like IT, accoun...

I did a little R.E. investing about 15 years ago. I owned a couple of 4 family apartment buildings, but got out because I was traveling out of town on business a lot, and the time/hassle was not worth the potential r...

Here's the short version:I'm a residential investor in New Jersey.  I've begun looking in Chicago for bigger deals and have been very lucky to have found a great broker and an even more amazing (future) property manag...

good afternoon! i am a fellow real estate rookie and have been interested for a very long time. My wife and I are in the process of buying another home, and we are going to rent out our current house we have now. Base...

Are all last-minute applicants bad ones?

I've been looking for a February roommate.

I've started getting more inquiries again, but after a quick Google/court record search for them, I have charming candidates.

1) S...

I posed this question on a recent forum post and got this response:To address your question we have to pause on the idea that you implied of "perfectly good". Is perfectly good the simple notion of payment history? ...

Ok...so...I'm a little beside myself. But I've got to get this off my chest.I'm seeing more and more posts about bad wholesalers. And all of the posts have various stories about how people are being jilted by bad whol...

if I buy, renovate and then rent or sell the property wouldn't it cost me the same to just simply buy a turnkey property and rent or sell it? I need to know please