This is my first rental property I am managing myself.  I have had one before but had a PM.  In this case, the rental is next door so my tenant is also my next door neighbor.  I am finding it complicates the relations...

Hello All,About two years ago I opened a Roth IRA after taking a college class for Personal Money Management since my teacher encouraged diversification and the tax benefits and all that jazz. Well since then, I have ...

Hey everyone!My name is Hilary Catton, and if you don't know me, I am the Director of Customer Success for this amazing site you're currently on, BiggerPockets!My goal is to make BiggerPockets even more accessible, ea...

I remember someone mentioned here that they would never rent to a lawyer for a variety of reasons.I tried to search for that thread but no luck.What about a cop, if you are concerned about a lawyer tenant would you ha...

I recently paid a builder about $4,500 total for several projects at my rental home in Indiana. These were: building a new wood deck at back door, building new staircase in  basement, installing a new window, repairin...

Hey guys, I want to share an interesting story with you, so newbies like myself remember to take extra care when selecting a contractor or anyone, really, for your team. My husband met this local contractor (let's cal...

Based on advice provided here at Bigger Pockets and elsewhere I've been looking into multi-family with a concentration on cash flow. I found a 3FAM with 3brs each for $250,000 in Worcester, MA where there's zillions...

I am working for an (extremely new) real estate crowdfunding company.As a startup that has just launched last week, we have very few links to our site. As a result we do not rank very high in Google or other major sea...

To all of you who have short term rentals I would appreciate your thoughts and advice on rehabbing a property for a short term rental.  I have a duplex where one half has been fixed up and is very clean and nice and I...

My wife and I are probably about 6 months away from launching into buying our first property. I have been reading BP articles and listening to the podcast and I've learned a lot. I'm so glad I found this place. I'm ne...