As the number of investors swell, so do the number of "so called hard money lenders" Since the recession, a lot of hard money lenders, or as I will call them, "pretend hard money lenders" ask you this question. How mu...

Hi Everyone,

I'm not an expert on creative financing deals, so I'm reaching out to those who are.

I have a seller who is older, does not want to deal with kicking out his tenant, fixing up and selling h...

Hi Folks,

Our friends at the IRS are auditing my 2009 return, mostly because of my real estate professional designation.
I have a full time job and the rentals take up all of the rest of my time and I easily spend mo...

Hello!I acquired my first home that I will be renting out in San Antonio, hopefully as soon as possible. I was hoping someone could assist me with the order of operations and tips on late rent and eviction process.I h...

For those of you who are concerned about government spending being out of control, and subsequently the risk of increasing taxes, I thought you might be interested in this bill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_Ma...

I'm one year into having a property manager take over one of our properties, it's mainly great because that income is now (almost) truly passive - probably requires less than 1 hr of time each month.However, my PM see...

I just emailed a remodeling company asking if they act as GCs on house rehab projects.  They come highly recommended and are a Five Star Rated (by Home Services Review) company.  My email said, "I'm a RE investor in t...

I have been communicating with a "private Lender" who is willing to lend me funds for a particular project.  Having never met him, I'm looking for advise as to how to check him out for legitimacy.  He sent me a copy o...

Hey all,
I hired this contractor to do some balcony work on my property. I paid him 50% of the final price as agreed in our contract for the completion of 50% of the work. 
However, it turns out the work was of low ...

How do I go about doing this with 20k in my pocket?