Is anyone using a surety bond for security deposits? As the property count grows and the deposits reach in the 10's of thousands, it seems like poor cashflow management to have all the cash just sitting in a separate ...

Are we as home owner’s responsible for tenant charges accumulated during move out? How can we verify if rental management company actually made good faith attempts to send move out balance to tenant after move out or ...

So I'm interviewing property mgmt companies and yesterday I talked to two new ones. While throwing questions at them, the second company said they typically only charge $300 for a security deposit (vs. the standard "...

I am getting into the fix and flip market and I have family and friends who are interested in investing with me. Basically they will lend me the money to use for a property and get a 10% return on their investment. Wh...

Anyone know of any kind of online escrow service that can be used for when you lend money to someone?
For instance, say it's for a loan 25-50k the buyer has closed already on the property. They need some additional f...

Granted, I'm aware that the main discussion here is note investing on real estate, however, I'm slightly curious to hear some feedback.Does anyone invest in other types of notes or paper outside of the real estate var...

I started investing money in Oct 2010 in lending club. My current annualized returns are 11.28% (I think my projected long term return will be around 9.5%). The only reason I can find not to continue to invest on th...

i have 19 units...i have been buying them in my LLC but I'm going to swich them over to individual real estate trusts...this is to have more liability protection and ease of management...the LLC will now be the manage...

Hey BP,

I was recently listening to the awesome interview that's in the BP blog that @Douglas Dowell did with securities attorney and syndicator Gene Trowbridge. It was full of some great i...

I need some advice on how to proceed. I may have committed a rookie oversight when I bought my first tenanted rental last month (only my fourth rental property, overall) from a whole seller in Indianapolis.
Everythin...