Chicago is a hot market now but the State, County and City all have significant public employee pension and healthcare debt (that cannot be reduced except maybe in a bankruptcy).  Property taxes are already high, but ...

Greetings everyone.As some of you know, I'm building a new house in San Jose, documented here: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/522/topics/154... , which scheduled to be finished in a couple of months.  So I'm itch...

I'm trying to take the approach of having my money work for me instead of the other way around. The struggle, however, is balancing what looks good on paper with what I want to do; being disciplined and careful, but n...

I am looking around to buy a property in or around Oakland, CA and was wondering if it is worth looking at the ones that are tenant occupied. I know Oakland is very renter friendly and you need a just cause to evict s...

We've been running a number of STR units for about 18 months now. I'm an airbnb super host but I've seen my bookings drop way off mid-october.  Are other ST operators experiencing this? Is it seasonal or the market ch...

I'm looking into real estate investing and the first question that comes to my mind is, "what could I potentially rent out a home for?" So I drive around town (Houston) looking at For Rent homes and call a few of them...

What is everyone's opinion on Harry Dent? He points out that real estate has pretty consistently gone up over most of our life times because of the baby boomers, but now that they are down-sizing and dying off, real e...