As its that time of year (in the USA at least), i found this (among many) good summary about when you have to pay self employment tax or not. Generally if you average 7 or fewer nights or 8-30 nights and provide "subs...

At this point I'm contributing 6% of my pay and getting 3% match by my employer. That's the max they will do.

The way I look at it, the company match basically protects my contribution from inflation, and any fund i...

Many people invest in real estate in order to create passive income and eventually become wealthy enough to not have to work a regular job for the rest of their lives.I want to pose a philosophical question. Is there ...

Hi everyone! Just joined BP, heard a lot of good things about this knowledgeable group. Need some advice on how to handle rent increase. My tenants been renting my house for the past 3 yrs. and I have not raised th...

So I have been reviewing my water bill. The usage seems high so I am taking a closer look. I have a 3 unit building. Unit 1: 1br with 1 tenantUnit 2: 2br with 2 tenantsUnit 3: 3br with 2 tenantsThe building is on one ...

Hello all,How do you personally determine if an out-of-state market is worth investing in? I live in the California Bay Area and real estate prices are astronomical. Being new to real estate investment, jumping into t...

Hello, as the title says I am 20 years old and I want to start learning about real estate investing. I'm currently serving active duty in the military stationed over in Honolulu HI. The reason I am deciding to create ...

Apparently it won't be as easy as 1-2-3 to evict. Apparently the pet can be the owner's emotional support pet.
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Hello everyone I'm a new aspiring RE investor and I am just trying to get some opinions from everyone on what a good starting checklist to getting started would be. I am working on building my credit because I used to...

Hi, my name is Jelmer. I own a small software company in the Netherlands called Royalution but i am also very intrested in real estate and building up cash flow. I am already reading many books about investing in real...