I was driving into the office today and had this thought.....are slumlords really that bad? Hear me out and then you decide.

I think it's safe to assume that most of the folks on BP would consider themselves ...

Hey folks - so I have a property in a lower-income part of town and almost every tenant who applies has a pitbull. (The animal, not the singer!) Anyway - tenants today know the game. They just need to say "it's a serv...

I've considered selling some rentals and buying two rentals with the money from each. I did that with one rental earlier this year. But with the market likely having only a few years to go before another correction, t...

My goal in writing this forum is to motivate other young people to work hard, take action, and take risk. To show them that you don't have to be exceptionally smart, or have tons of money.For a long time I didn't like...

Hello,I am new to real estate investing and decided to go with Easy Street Capital as our lender for the DSCR loan.They already ran out credit and we went under contract on a property after getting the pre-qualificati...

My First Deal and the 12 Deadly Mistakes I MadeThe quick and dirty numbers: Purchase Price: $17,307Purchase Closing Costs: $2000Rehab Costs: $80,748Roof: $6538Foundation: $3000Handyman Labor: $19,284Dumpster: $4378Ele...

Hi guys, Was wondering if I could get your input. Our first out of state investment has been a learning experience for sure. Our PM said we'd need some yard work and house cleaning estimating it to be $800 -$1000. I s...

The other day after work I got to my car and started checking my phone to respond to emails, check BiggerPockets and LinkedIn. After a while I realized that I had been sitting in my car responding to those in the real...

Background,
A woman who couldn't afford her payments left Maryland. Her bank started foreclosure and stopped about 1 1/2 years ago. She filled out the paperwork for a deed in lieu of foreclosure and the bank refused...

Although I'm not a big fan of using the Capitalization (Cap) Rate to analyze a property, it is a number used by many investors as a quick one-dimensional metric.  It is also one that is more commonly used in the comme...