Hey BP community,Are there any satisfied buy and hold mobile home investors out there? Why does this niche seem so uninhabited? With $50K cash, we recently purchased and rehabbed 6 mobile homes, five of which are in a...

Hey friends, my name is Alex and I have been around BP for about 7 years. I'm an investor, I have been on the real estate podcast, I write for the BP blog, I'm the photographer for the BPcon event, and I absolutely lo...

Hi, let me re-post my introduction (I first posted this in wrong place, and just found how to shoot Bakersfield RE forum).I moved to Bakersfield in 2014 from Pomona, CA for my job (R&D in a seed company, W-2 emplo...

Hello everyone!I recently bought a duplex with tenants living in it. On one of the side the tenants was smoking inside and had been for 4 years. When we did there lease we talked to them about how they will not be abl...

I just closed on my VERY FIRST investment property last week and got painters in there quickly to repaint the walls and trim. Today was the first big rain we had since we closed on the property and I noticed one o...

Hi Everyone! I’ve been doing a lot of reading both here on the forums as well as real estate investing books. As someone starting out with no actual experience, it’s a bit of information overload. Since I’ve been lurk...

When I started with my first rental, the person who counseled me suggested asking less than market rent to find the best tenants possible, even seeking a few competing applications. Does anybody think this is a good i...

Hi all! We just put our first rental up and I’ve gotten a lot of action but no bites!! 2 showings and one incomplete application in 4 weeks! I’m getting a little discouraged. I’ll leave the Cozy link which is the sa...

What's up BP?!My fiance and I are writing to you from Denver, CO. We are researching potential strategies to GROW our portfolio. Right now we have 2 SFH, primary residence, each in our own names. Both have equity/appr...