I've been reading BP forum posts since February.  I don't read very fast and I find it even harder to store information, so the repetition of information is extremely helpful to me.  My wife owns a property here.  Not...

I'm new to Real Estate investing.  I'm based out of bay area, California and the real estate here is really pricey.  I'm looking at investing in small multi-family properties.  It's pretty hard to find a cash flow gen...

Hello Everyone,
I'm a newbie at real estate investing and have been looking for an excellent deal to purchase in the Los Angeles area. However, to no surprise to anyone, LA is a saturated and overpriced area.  After ...

Following the UK’s decision to leave the EU some Britons have deferred plans to move to a European Union (EU) country or purchase a second home in EU destinations including Spain and Portugal. This isn’t the case for...

Hello Everyone, I am looking into setting up an LLC and would like some advice on how I should approach this.

Here is my situation:
Currently I own 3 properties, (2) 1 families and (1) two unit. All are in my name....

My husband and I live in Chatsworth, CA and recently learned about real estate investing just 2 months ago. We are committed to learning everything to be able to achieve financial freedom ASAP! We both currently work ...

What % should expenses be in relation to gross rents for multifamily properties.  For example:  While evaluating a deal, for the sake of easy math, a multifamily property has gross rents of $100,000.  The Actual or Pr...

I rarely ever see anyone talk about amortization. So I'm trying to figure out how I should be thinking about this. In the first years of a loan you pick away at the principal very slowly. Is it worthwhile to use c...

Hello,We are moving into a new home and will be selling or renting out our old one.  We had a private lender loan us the money to get out of our VA loan in order to pay 0 down on the new home.  We have to refinance to...

An obstacle I'm running into with building my portfolio after analyzing a potential deal is the very high property taxes, particularly on properties that have been owned a long time by the previous owner. Im.not certa...