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...

There's been a lot of discussion on the forums as it relates to differentiating bad debt from good.  The most common view on BP is that any debt which does not produce investment returns is bad debt.I, for the most pa...

Many of us experienced folks on the forums the last couple years have been expressing concern about people being overleveraged and for strategies like the BRRRR method. Myself, @Jay Hinrichs, @Alexander Felice, @Joe S...

They would be an absolute except a few people get lucky and put everything they have into a rental property and nothing goes wrong for a year or two, giving them time to build up cash reserves.  Then again a few peopl...

My main REI niche is newly-undervalued raw rural acreage in Snohomish county, WA, near Seattle. My general investing strategy is to "clip off" the land's surplus transferable development rights for later sale to urban...

Hi BP,I’d like to generate a fresh thread to address an issue that is catching many new investors by surprise: The 6-month Seasoning period.I’m now on my 3rd Rental. It was time to give the BRRRR strategy a try. I pur...

About 2 months ago, a 2/1 SFH in Sunnyvale sold for $2M, and made headlines in the Bay Area for a few days. https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/2/17073100/silicon-va...2 months later, a SFH in the same neighborhood, 2x the s...