Good afternoon, everyone!My name is Curtis and I am extremely excited to start my real estate investing career! I'm 30 years old and I'm from the Chicago south suburbs. For the last 10 years, I have worked as an IBEW ...

How do you protect yourself from something like this:  http://www.weartv.com/news/features/top-stories/st...The article states the jury found the apartment complex at fault "for not providing proper security the night...

I have been shopping for a hard money lender religiously for a prospective property...going on 2 weeks! Hell, I even put out an ad in the BP marketplace. Today, out of nowhere, I receive a long text.  It asked me what...

I am wondering if anyone is relatively familiar with quickbooks online and uses it to track their income and expenses for their properties.
I have 6 properties, one of them is owned in an LLC, and the rest are in my ...

Hey everyone,So, we decided to try something new in getting BiggerPockets' name out there to the world, so we took what was going to be a super long blog post and turned it into a short Kindle book. We're calling it a...

What's up All?I'm very comfortable with analyzing residential real estate.  However, I haven't found any good videos or topics that discuss analyzing short term rentals.  I'm pretty sure I can come up with some analys...

Hi Everyone,
I have a triplex with 60 amp service.
My insurance company is demanding I upgrade to 100 amps. $4000 is my
lowest bid. There are 2 small 1 bedrooms and a1 2 bedroom. Each
apartment has an electric sto...

Any advice, suggestions, or strategies on this scenario would be greatly appreciated: My husband and I are purchasing a single family home at auction (we have done our due diligence) as a first investment property. Of...

I am buying a neglected 33 unit property. The owner is not local and has let the property go down hill. 10 units are currently rented. The buildings look fine and are in good condition other than a few broke doors....

I am aware of and follow the 1% "rule" when analyzing a new property and setting rent rates. Now I would like to have a discussion what Landlords are doing with rent rates seeing that property values have went up so m...