Hi all, I wanted to share my recent experiences with turning our garage studio apartment conversion into a short term rental. We have had great success and so far no real issues. The income has paid for the mortgage f...

One of the most common topics discussed on bigger pockets and other real estate forums is the decision between a property that cash flows and one that has the potential to appreciate. To take this further, I recently ...

cc: @James Hamling So today is very interesting. Job market is extremely robust that we add 300k jobs than 150k predicted job. In theory this should not be good news because then Fed would have reason to keep the inte...

In an upscale neighborhood in Brentwood California a guy rented out his guest house on Airbnb.His latest guest has now lived in his guest house for years, she hasn't paid rent in 540 days, and she is saying she will n...

My question is… Do people promote buying rentals due to some sort of  personal benefit/conflict of interest?From a birds eye view and in a perfect world people would buy a property and their tenants would pay for it. ...

Welcome to the first 2014 East Bay Meetup!

The last meetup in Oakland was a great exchange, so time for another one! Please post on this forum instead of the old one if you plan to attend, so I can get a ba...

Hello forum!

I was reading a bit of the posts here and after seeing how friendly and knowledgable everyone was I had to sign up. I'm looking forward to talking with everyone on here, learning and make new friends.
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These days, you can't stay on BP for more than 5 minutes without seeing a thread about investing OOS in Memphis...It is absolutely becoming the new Las Vegas, in my opinion...When the music stops, and it will and it a...