I've always heard that you can expect to be anywhere from 8%-12% of rent for professional property management. I'm finding PMs who charge that as the base fee... but what I didn't expect is to see a high cost for find...

A couple of weeks ago, I was at a local car wash waiting for my truck, & I called a mortgage broker about some info I sent him to get pre-qualified for a loan. A man standing nearby overheard part of my conversati...

How do you guys deal with the problem of potential renters who don't show up? I've had two appointments for this morning and neither of them showed up. So basically I'm just sitting here alone in an empty unit on a be...

@Ali Boone , @Charles McNelly, and others have talked about lifestyle design, and how it fits into their real estate investing - or should I say, how their real estate investing fits into their lifestyle design. I've ...

Happy New Year BP community.I just got an email from Zillow rental manager saying that starting in Feb if I have > 1 rental listing I have to pay $9.99 per week for each listing.  This is for the Raleigh NC area.An...

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I was at a graduation recently where the commencement speaker announced future plans for each of the Math graduates as they received their diplomas. As I expected, many were headed to ...

I keep talking to my friends and coworkers about investing in real estate and so many of them seem to not have any knowledge about the VA loan and what it could do for you.

I’m by no means a real estate expert, but ...

I composed an offer letter for my real estate agent to send out and it included pictures of my wife and our new baby. 
After sending out 10 offer letters, I found out she hasn't been including our photos. When I aske...