Hi, my name is Izzy. I am totally new to investing. Just call me Greenie. LOLI decided that living on Social Security is really not how I pictured myself living, way back when. I spent the last 17 years working in the...

I read Keith Boley's short article "So you're new to this" and I really appreciated the useful ideas, things I did not think of or do when i started.  To me I am 'still' starting.  But what actually made me purchase m...

I recently graduated college and got a job as a teacher. I still live with parents and I'm paying student loans and paying off my car. In my first year, I was able to save $10k. Trying to buy a rental property. Any wa...

So I've never purchased a rental, and never really planned on it, but I found a home for 500 dollars. Zillow says its worth 80K, and rentslicer says it will rent for $750/mon. Its 1700 sq. ft., and I have a call in fo...

Hi  - my friend needs CASH (want to build a residence in country club) and is Selling his 8 units multifamily complex. Here is the DEAL:8 units, (7) 2BR, (1) 4Br, renovated in 2012, currently fully leased.Negotiated P...

So, it's been about a year since I decided to start investing in rental properties. What a roller coaster.  I've gone from MF to SF to vacation rentals and back.  I put offers in on several houses but I was never the ...

Some of you already know the story, but for those who don’t I wanted to share how this deal came about.As a brand new acquisition company located in Arizona, this was our second contract we ever locked up, the first o...

We bought our first home this past summer and didn't realize how bad of condition the walls are. We knew we had a few issues, but now realize almost every wall in the home needs work to look decent.We had planned to s...

I am getting ready to rent my primary residence in June. One of my biggest problems is knowing when to call it good on rehab, I do construction and am pretty anal when it comes to that kind of stuff. I tend to see eve...

Hello BP Family,I recently purchased a quadplex and one of the units is vacant. My PM recommends repainting the whole unit. The unit is 2br/1.5 bath (1150 sqft) with a ceiling about 8 ft. I plan to repaint the unit ov...