HI i just signed a lease with a tenant husband and wife to rent my singer family home for one year. They came twice before signing lease and checked everything inside and out.  I was nice enough to let them move in a ...

Hello, We bought a property in CA at a trustee sale with an existing senior lien under the previous owner's name. Now my title company and are having difficulty in obtaining payoff amount. By standard, the serve compa...

What is everyone preference regarding having the option to own a handful of properties out right verses having a much larger portfolio with the debt that comes with it? Or do some people opt for a mix of both?I assume...

Hi everyone,Perhaps a subject beaten to death, but I have a personalized question about how to decide toward what niche I should put my efforts ... in the beginning.I want to buy-and-hold.  I feel this very personally...

I finally got a chance to see inside the multi-family that I am purchasing in the DFW area. What I thought were 5 one bedroom units are actually 5 three bedroom units (around 900 sq. feet each) with one fairly lar...

I decided to try house hacking with my first Duplex, I'm living on the top unit and renting out the bottom unit. I rented the other unit out on a month-to-month basis in the beginning of March, right before the corona...

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As retirement inches nearer, I'm finding myself spending a LOT of time on planning, and am determined to make our money work hard for us. We live in Dubai, planning to move to either US or maybe Brisbane, sti...

I recently had someone tell me that you have to pay transfer taxes when you assign a contract. Is this true?

I've done contract assignments and have never paid any transfer tax. In my mind, there is no transfer of o...

I was doing some reading about the 2008 bubble burst of the real estate market in the book "The AfterShock Investor" by David Wiedmer. He explains the cause of the crash, which we should all know about anyway, but...

How many of you out there use a Credit card for your investing BIZ or personal life? My wife and I don't use them because of the Dave Ramsey movement, but now that we are doing well with money I might consider it?  wh...