Hey All,

So I have been looking at property here in Austin for a while. I have figured out that I am ready to purchase my first duplex and have found a few that cash flow and are in areas I consider sound.
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There is a property I looked at, where a bank was originally scheduled to take possession of it via a foreclosure auction in Sep 2013, then the owner filed bankruptcy to stop the foreclosure, then the foreclosure w...

I'm curious to see how others got involved in real estate investing. How old were you when you started researching/learning? How long was it until you purchased your first property? Second? etc. What is your "go to" p...

Looking for thoughts and suggestions on how to deal with this situation:

I leased a home to an engaged couple last spring. Both had good jobs and decent credit ratings. The woman has a young son from a previous marri...

Hello, I'm wondering if I should use a property management company or not?  I'm mainly interested in the aspect of how to acquire and market to tenants. I have the capability to handle the application processes, evict...

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I have a tenant, who hasn't paid there deposit fully, and claims that they don't have access to email and texting and so every time when I have to schedule something to fix - I need to send them letters and corres...

Working on some direct mail pieces for absentee landlords - what were the hardest lessons you learned as a landlord - the kinds of things that -almost- made you throw in the towel.

For me, it was listening to late re...

This last week my wife and I looked at a couple potential Flip/BRRRR properties in Panama City, FL.  One is interesting but we are not going to pursue.  I have been analyzing these type deals for last several months a...

Might be a dumb question and/ or answered somewhere else in this sea of great information, but it seems that the BP consensus is that out of state absentee owners are preferred over in state absentee owners. I get tha...

Hi All, For those with long term buy and hold rentals, when did you decide to hire a property manager vs. just managing them yourself? After a certain # of units? After a certain amount of cashflow? From the very firs...