I have a gut feeling that a prospective tenant is supplying false information on the application.  The landlord was "glowing" about her as a tenant.  I tried a free phone lookup to confirm the number belongs to the na...

Hello everybody this is my first post so please bare with me. I currently am living in California just north of Los Angeles and am looking to get into my first Real Estate Investment. With current prices where they ar...

Hi BP,Do investors, purchasing a property with the sole expectation of renting it out, make it harder for owner-occupants to find affordable housing?This is the question that came up from a family member.  He lives in...

Going to try to negotiate the purchase of vacant lot tomorrow. Any advice?I’m meeting the owner of a vacant lot tomorrow to try to negotiate the purchase of a vacant lot in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a killer pr...

I bought a 40 acre farm property 3 minutes from town last July for $367k. I have put $275k into improvements. 
I’ve had several brokers out last week and all of them have given me comp reports in the $1.2m to $1.3m r...

Hello, as a beginner I am learning how to count all costs for repairs but I can’t find any good estimators or contractors who could help me to find out estimate to fix one big house. I am interesting to buy 5 bedroom ...

Purchasing a 6 unit property in Maine (cold, snow), 3 separate buildings, that has separate oil furnaces for each unit.  All of the furnaces are 20+ years old and the tanks are corroding.  There is no natural gas in t...

Hey BP!I’ve got an issue with a foreclosure I just bought today. I won the auction and paid for the property there. Then I drive by the house and there’s an investor company (something like “we buy run down house”) si...

There's a 3/3.5, 2,250 sf 1959 SFH that I found on Zillow today that is priced at $67K.  Its been on Zillow for nearly 6 months.  Its in a decent part of town.  I would no be opposed to living there myself.  The descr...