As you scroll through fackbook or other sites you see various life hacks about cooking, landscaping, etc. I want this post to be about landlord hacks( what are some simple tricks you use to make your life easier as a ...

I am currently saving up to buy my first property (a househack) while finishing grad school. I have a job lined up in Dallas, which is theoretically great for long term appreciation. However it's also highly competiti...

So I am looking to purchase my first property in Ewing New Jersey (after looking at multi family (2-4) in other parts of jersey and NYC), and after doing about 20 calculations for rental properties in the area, and it...

I've seen so many forum posts advising NOT to give any money to contractors upfront - because so many people have been ripped off by contractors. I've seen many responses from contractors, saying they've got to buy ma...

I actually have 2 things to celebrate today:1. This is my 5,000 post to Bigger Pockets!!!2. The last payment was made on a property I bought in 2012 using peer to peer lending on a 3 year loan!What better way to celeb...

This morning the CDC extended the eviction moratorium through June 30, 2021. The first stipulation states the tenant is making best efforts to secure assistance. Given the $50B that congress has allocated to rent assi...

If I was to put in a very low offer due to the fact that the listed property has had no written offers in 2 weeks how would I structure that?Example: 100k property with an offer of 60kI know that's a large spread of 6...

Back in March 2013, BiggerPockets and J Scott collaborated to release two books -- The Book on Flipping Houses and The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs (check them out here if you haven't already). As part of the book ...

It has been agressively stated here on BP that operating expenses average 50% of gross rents. I have posted many times that while that may be true with some properties, it is not accurate or appropriate to use this pe...