I know this will ruffle a few feathers but it is a fair question. I have met and had hundreds of interactions with realtors and I am never surprised at the new lows that some of them can reach. I was also a manager at...

Hi BP,So I'm planning on buying my first home around the end of the year and I would like to allow my girlfriend to live with me. We have been going out for about 6 months and I was wondering if I should create a rent...

Is this a deal breaker for you? Is it an automatic disqualified? Or, do you take it on a case-by-case basis?Here's some background info on my situation:Renting out a townhouse in a decent, working-class area, some cri...

Sharing the Freddie Mac Worst Cities in terms of declining values. Boom towns zoom towns going down. Probably time to sell in Boise.

Hi everyone,

I'm a new BP member living in southern California. I haven't quite found my niche yet, but I find myself being really drawn to the buy and hold type of investing.

It seems like buy and hold...

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I am curious how many of you guys own your own home? I ask because my focus for the past several years has been paying off the mortgage. Now that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel I can feel comfortabl...

Does having diarrhea make one an Expert on Toilets?

Just because one investor, in one part of the country, during a specific time period, uses a specific technique (s) to make money in real estate, does not make him...

We were just yesterday looking at some options for home warranty type of services and I think crowd-sourcing this one may help:The provider we were looking at specifically was HomeServe, however there are numerous oth...

Greetings BP,So I’m 19 years old, from the Chicagoland area and I’ve decided to drop out of community college couple of weeks ago. I realized that a traditional education wasn’t for me and it would hold me back from a...

I live in San Diego, CA and have been looking for options locally but the numbers aren't adding up to my planned budget. I have been looking out of state at cheaper multifamily homes and those seem to bring the cash f...