Option - In legal language, a real estate option is an agreement that grants the party owning the option, the optionee, the exclusive, unrestricted, and irrevocable right to purchase property from the party selling th...

My apologies in advance for being verbose, but the details are necessary. I've been living in my home for 7+ years and I've seen the neighborhood change with some property owners renting out their homes instead of sel...

I plan to buy a rental property with cash from personal assets (stock market) and I plan to have the title held in an s-corp, for liability protection. Is there liability protection value in having the s-corp borrow...

My husband and I want to purchase a 4plex as our first investment property (owner-occupy). I found a fourplex in my area, looked up the owner, and finally got his cell phone number. This guy is a multi billionaire, wh...

Hey BP!Say you have a duplex that you paid $60k for.Rental income is $1000/month. ($500 upper / $500 lower), property taxes ~2500, insurance ~$600, no major expenses on my end, utilities all in tenants name.Basement h...

Let’s start a list of issues with the property it self and how we fixed them:1. Painted over wall paper - used a belt sander with 60 grit, then a skim coat mud, then normal paint prep.2. Not enough matching doors - re...

I have been considering rolling my employer-sponsored 401K into a checkbook/self directed IRA for the purpose of providing hard money loans because I am DISGUSTED by the low ROR I get now.  What advice do veteran lend...

Why do so many new people want to wholesale to get started in real estate? Is it because all the guru's talk about it making it seem great. To me, it looks like it sucks. I would rater get a 2nd job at a good rate to ...

Hello, quick question to all the EXPERTS out there...I was approached, on my own residential property, by a Realtor, who was showing a client a short sale across the street. When the Realtor got to speaking to my hus...