I've sadly come to the conclusion that our country is done, over, kaput! I finally came to this conclusion over the weekend as we were circulating petitions to put a Constitutional Amendment on the November ballot in...

For buy and hold investors out there, how do you guys think about appreciation and how do you factor it in to your buying and selling decisions, if at all? What key factors do you use to measure the potential for appr...

It seems like so many clients and friends I talk to want to get started in real estate investing.  With all the accessible information (including from platforms like BP) interest is higher than ever.My question is sim...

I have always been fascinated with real estate.I started in 2000 investing in a couple rental houses.My "AHA" moment came in 2008 to move away from the single rentals and graduate up to large apartment complexes.My ba...

Having had so many investing students and BP members express their issues around funds, education or just plain fear, I thought it would be helpful for everyone to not only hear from investors having challenges or hes...

Ok so for first time new investors, i went to multiple of banks and there is no such thing as no money down or 3 or 5 percent low down payments, its normal 20 or 25 percent down, so only way i see to profit from rent...

Yesterday (7/31) I closed on a $1.3M, 20 unit apartment deal that's going to net me a passive, positive cashflow of $3,000/month. This is after ALL expenses (PITI, PM fees, repairs, vacancy, capex fund, etc). My perso...

I purchased my 1st investment property from REI Nation last year and a major selling point to me was that the average tenant staying for ~5.5 years.  This morning, after ~1.5 years, I was informed my tenant is termina...

Lets see how much thought is going to go into this housing / bank bailout . . . frankly, I'm starting to think that the move to make is to stop paying the mortgage so I can:

a) Get "bailed out"
b) Renegotiate my loa...

This is more of a vent than anything.

So the first month with a new tenant has come around and I still have no rent payment. We set it so it was due on the 5th and late by the 10th; The renter wanted to pay r...