I am interested in buying another primary residence to take advantage of Fannie Mae's 5% down for multi family homes so I can house hack. I am a single female and cannot drive since I grew up in NYC, so I'd like to ge...

I am often asked this question:  "What is my biggest financial risk in buying/owning a short-term rental property?"
Lots of things come immediately to mind:  Septic problems, a new roof, HVAC failure, lower-than-proj...

To summarize a long story: Daughter & her fam moved back home (with wife & I) in 2019 after son-in-law laid off. Covid hit in 2020 & he got back to work in late-mid 2020. My wife talked about selling or re...

This came up in another thread and I thought it worth having its own discussion.

What do you think would encourage those people who come and read the site (available to non-members) to sign up and participate?

Ideas...

Plenty of buying and selling still going on these days, so thought I'd pose the question to the community given where we're at in the cycle.Would you diversify the property types in your portfolio (multi family, condo...

Article on key findings of recently released National Climate Assessment:

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2014/05/12/2national-climate-assessment-key-findings-part-1/

Interesting map on U.S. coastal ...

I see some landlords recommend searching social media about the applicant as part of tenant screening. Is this legal to make a decision based on what is found on social media about applicant? I know some websites like...

My business partner and I are buying a rental property (2bd/1ba) in Michigan. We’ve also formed an LLC in the same state. We’ve been preapproved for conventional financing. Because our LLC is new, we’re using personal...

Since some of you are, unfortunately, looking for a new one, what would an Ideal PM provide to you in terms of services, information, reports, etc. and what do YOU feel would be a proper fee structure? Now, be realist...

So I am looking for a house to brrrr and I decided to be responsible for once instead of just jumping into something and made sure that I would be able to refinance out of a deal before I jumped into some hard money I...