I am looking to leave my W2 because it is an extremely intense and unhealthy work environment. I would like to get into the real estate industry, don't have any properties yet (so no rental history), have enough capit...

Hello BP community,I am thinking of getting home insurance on my recent flipping project in DE.  I need an insurance company that will insure vacant house in DE.  Any suggestion?I learned my lesson on my last project ...

Hello!  One of my rentals has 11-foot-high ceilings in all the rooms except the kitchen, and a new handyman told me yesterday the smoke detectors are in the wrong location.  I have  6 smoke alarms on the main floor an...

My investment group just picked up our first rental property. It is 1200 sqft bungalow 2 bd, 1 ba single family on the east side of Cleveland, OH in a safe a decent neighborhood. The rental comp research we did determ...

First time landlord here, of 12 months. Talk about baptism by fire - literally! My rental property went up in flames today. Tentatively investigator says it was an accidental fire caused by one of the tenants cigarett...

I'm really struggling with this. I found a half-duplex in an A/B neighborhood (A+ school districts, growing area) that I want to buy. The only downside is there is a smoker next door.  While this is a highly desired a...

I am meeting with a motivated seller tomorrow evening who has missed "one or two mortgage payments" but is not yet technically in foreclosure. He owes 30K on the note and wants me to purchase the home  from him for so...

This is my primary residence.  My neighbor installed a fence about 10 years ago on what we thought was the lot line.  We tore our house down and built a new one 4 years ago, at which time we discovered his fence was w...

4-Plex located in a C'ish area of Las Vegas.  It's part of a community of about 20 identical 4-Plexes.  Did a drive-by and it seemed to be an oasis in what was otherwise neighborhoods I probably wouldn't have any inte...

There was a huge apartment fire down the street from one of my buildings last night. They got everyone out ok so no one was hurt, thank God. 18 apartments destroyed and 2 commercial spaces, one was rented by our sta...