Would anyone like to explain to me some of the benefits\drawbacks of both of these types of investments? It seems to me that when starting out, REI seems to require far more money than investment in stocks.

I read t...

I've been flipping houses full time now for about 2 years, I did it part time from around 2004 to 2007 and got back in a couple of years ago when I saw and heard that the market was good again for flipping. In my f...

Our 6 week full remodel was devastated by Ian today.We aren’t sure how much has survived. We lost comms with neighbors before the water was at our door.Lanai ripped off.Huge palm trees ripped out.That’s what we know s...

A fellow investor recently said to me, "I want a 60 year old renter because they're stuck in their ways and I want them to be stuck in my home." If this is the target renter, you'd have to have single-story homes with...

Years ago, I had a tenant who's toilet got plugged - but they continued to use it until it overflowed on a weekend and I was the only maintenance guy we had. It was the last toilet I ever worked on... and probably th...

I have examined many leases and I have never seen an expressed complete clause whereby the tenant damages the property and the landlord receives compensation immediately. I do not want to wait till they vacate and ha...

Just curious to see what other people's favorite negotiating tactic is.

Aside from not needing to buy and having a seller that needs to sell (this is a position rather than a tactic anyway), my favorite tactic is to ...

What does your Property Management company charge you?

Do they mark up the invoice if something happens such as a rehab?

By hedge funds I mean any of the institutional investors that have been investing in rental properties the last few years. Does anybody have any first hand knowledge of what any of them are doing in your local mar...

I hear stories all the time about tenants going on vacation, turning the heat down, and coming back to burst pipes, which seems to typically end up being the landlord's problem. Is this actually as common as it seems?...