Okay, i have been consulting with many of my colleagues, friends, family and mentors about purchasing my first real estate investment property during college. I have have been receiving more negative feedback then pos...

Hi everyone! My name is Amanda Harris from the Memphis and North Mississippi area. My husband and I own a home improvement company and I am also a licensed REALTOR in both Tennessee and Mississippi. I also have a d...

Hello Everyone,I'm Jay from San Antonio. I have been an inactive member of BP for several months now. I have been reading a lot of posts and listening to the podcasts, which are very informative and entertaining. The ...

Hello guys,So i have a property i been trying to rent out for a month now with limited response. Today i get a text from a mom and 2 kids. Recently seperated. She said she is willing to pay a full year up front which ...

Hi BP community?
I have been reading a lot about real estate lately. I have always been a saver and lived frugal.Now I have about 50k saved and I want to make my money work for me. How do I start investing conservati...

Hello yall,
I was wondering if there is any active duty military on BP. I am going through this struggle in my mind that if I want to stay in I will have to scale back on my investing quite a bit. I just got orders t...

Hope this is ok to ask a general lifestyle as well as investment questions.  My wife and are looking to buy a single family home hopefully in the next couple of months.  We're currently looking in Granada Hills, Pasad...

Hey everyone! I am currently trying to get all my ducks in a row and have a long-term plan outlined. I know real estate investing will be the way I achieve my financial freedom. My vision of financial freedom is, of c...

Hi All,As there are many well established, and up and coming, rental property investors on here I figured I would ask this question of you.I hear many different options for financing your first rental property.  This ...

Let's say the property sale price is 290k. Can we increase the price to 385k, and have the seller gift the 25% down payment? Or possibly loan it? For a regular fannie mae investment property loan on a 2-4 unit.