Sobering assessment from the annual report by the Taxpayer Advocate Service (a semi-independent branch of the IRS basically tasked with specific and systemic problem resolution):- 10-month refund delays on paper-filed...

Economic Update
(Monday, August 31, 2020)

The US economy got crushed in the second quarter, with the worst decline in real GDP for any quarter since the Great Depression. However, the good news for real estate...

Looking at potential new tenants for a recently vacant unit.  One prospective new tenant has a service dog, that I believe is a dangerous breed, or a mix with a dangerous breed (pitbull).  I do not allow dangerous bre...

Can I get some feedback on the following pay for property data sites:

A) Realtytrac.com
B) Defaultreasearch.com
C) Myrealtydata.com
D) Buybankhomes.com
E) Forclosures.com
F) Realtystore.com

Any other sources that wo...

My fiance and I are budding real estate investors, still learning the ropes. We have not even found our first deal yet and are truly in the infancy stages of our venture. Finding this community has been fantastic simp...

hi BP community,I wanted any recommendations on property mangers for management of a 4 unit building near downtown LA. Please let me know any positive or negative feedback you may have had. It seems like most people a...

I bought a vacant property that is being rehabbed and it keeps getting a lot of mail every day.  They are addressed to many different people not noticeably related by name.  I’ve held the mail for 30 days through the ...

So I’m at a stalemate. I’m currently living in Hawaii and own a duplex in Fayetteville, NC. My wife and I have a baby on the way due in about 7 months along with about $30k in debt. I want to get rid of this debt as q...

I recently had an offer accepted on a residential house for my family and I and as a first-time home buyer, I had a question regarding the mortgage process.  We put in offers on a lot of houses, in which case our mort...

Hi all,
First post here, just signed up. Been spending a lot of time trying to learn and ran into this site after having bought a few BP audio books off Audible.I'm in kind of an interesting situation and hoping som...