I'm sure I am going to get a range of responses here.  I walked through the house we are rehabbing, came up with a detailed scope of work, and emailed it to a contractor I have gotten a bid from in the past (but haven...

Living in NJ we've been looking at a few properties and it seems the 1% rule doesn't really work because of the high taxes..  Example:$130,000 property.  Owner had cats so it really just needs new carpets to get rid o...

I got featured in a recent blog post of Joe Fairless!I mentioned that if I received 20 million in real estate, I would go for NNN lease properties.What would you do if you received 20 million in real estate?Is that tr...

Can anyone direct me to any good (sourced) charts/graphs that show why buy&hold real estate is a much better investment in the long term than the stock market?  Pulling together a presentation and wanted to show a...

Hello all,

My rental property has a sunken concrete slab on the sidewalk in front of the property.

Anu ideas on How to fix this in a cheap/effective way. It seems too deep for quikrete.
The property is in H...

Hi everyone, So my husband and I just bought our first buy and hold rental. Everything was going great. We waited to get good tenants (about a month of going through applications) and the tenants we chose just moved i...

I went to a meeting two nights ago and heard a pitch for startup money. The basics of it were if you have a credit score of 680 or higher you can get up to $150,000 for a 10% flat fee up front and 0% interest for the ...

I like to always learn from the mistakes of others and my own, so I thought I would ask the community to talk about a time you dug yourself out a hole?

Hi,We own a few single-family properties in the Phoenix area and they are all managed by the same property manager for many years now.Since these houses aged a little bit and have normal wear and tear it's time to mak...