Hi everybody,Newbie here, looking to buy my first property. I'm not totally green to the life of a landlord, as I have managed my dad's 4plex property since I was a teenager. However, he bought in the 90s, in a nice p...

I'm wondering what is the best approach when searching for commercial/multi-family units as investment properties in NJ. My experience has always been in sfh and always used my residential realtor for most deals. Is i...

Hey Everyone, 
For the past few weeks I’ve been working to find ways to get cash from our home equity. 
My family has a beach home that has about $2 million in equity built up.
I’ve come to the latest conclusion t...

"Industry standard" seems to be that you pay a percentage of the total lease to the realtor that found the tenant, for the full term of the lease, and that is paid up front.
Why?  Why do we do this?
Most of our prop...

I just recently moved to Southern Utah and I am looking to fix a place up two places, possibly a third, with new Kitchen Cabinets and Granite Counters.  When in Oregon and Seattle I found a couple of great places with...

Hi!When you are refinancing a property and the appraisal value comes back way higher than your purchase+repair costs; how much will you borrow? The max the bank gives you to continue growing your portfolio? A prudent ...

Hey BP community I need your Help & Input  please . 
       I want to take advantage of the new Senate Bill 9 (SB9) in California . With SB9 Cities must allow up to two lots (and up to four homes total) within si...

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other l...

As obvious as it may seem, REMEMBER TO SLEEP! As real estate investors we tend to go 100%, 100% of the time. You have to remember to take some time for rest. One thing that I have tried the last 6 months is writing ev...

Zillow started trading today on the NASDAQ under the ticker Z. According to this article on TechCrunch, when the stock opened at $60, that represented a valuation of $1.6 billion - extremely frothy, given the $11.3 m...