Pittsburgh PA has  alot of grand old houses in need of rehab - I have found many of these have third floors with room to add a bedroom or additional bath - in some cases there is room for a complete apartment or effic...

Don't look now but another seismic shift is coming to a real estate market near you.As you might have heard, there have been several recent class action law suits and even Department of Justice guidance that could cha...

Hello everyone! My name is Anthony Banegas. Some background information about me: I just ended my 3rd year as a college student and am entering my fourth and final year in the Fall, I am 20 years old, I also recently ...

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I recently came across a tenant application and while checking the background is noticed that a theft charge, judgements and other collection reports. But the situation here is the tenants mother is renting th...

Hi BP -- I have a property under contract in Woodland Park, CO which is a smaller mountain town outside of Colorado Springs. It's close to a few lakes, some nice hiking and offroading, and is more of a 'summer getaway...

Although I've had some success, I'm also not totally enthusiastic about it either. Obviously apt buildings are very management intensive and many of these owners would like out of them as they get older, but still nee...

When building a Real Estate Portfolio, should there be a separate entity for each property?Should the finances of the property by handled through that entity or a different one.  I was told the property holding entity...

I don't quite understand this so called "law of diminishing returns". It shows up in the BP calculator each time I analyze a property. The ROI percentage starts to go down at about the 10 year mark. Plus I keep hearin...

Not bad for one month:

$787 billion stimulus, now he wants $634 billion for healthcare and the House just approved a $410 billion pork spending bill.

$1.83 Trillion in his first month!

He still has 47 months to go...

So I went on an appointment to look at a house today where the owner had rented the property to his daughter, who then allowed her boyfriend to turn the property into a pot grow house. I was absolutely floored to find...