How to help my 17 year old son get started in real estate?Let me start off by saying that I have personally been doing real estate for over 20 years andI realize a lot of people are going to say “ tell him to go to th...

I'm curious to see folk's philosophy on this. I consider my personal residence to be a doodad I live in. Yes, I bought it at about 20-30% fmv but regardless, it is a piece of real estate that garners no cashflow for...

I keep running into articles about people who live an extreme austere life styles and do not work full time. (I call dibs on idea for the reality show featuring that life style).  I do not want to eat ramen noodles 6 ...

Earlier this month, I renewed my tenant's lease. The renewal states...
"The LANDLORD and TENANT hereby agree to renew the Original Agreement for a further term of one year commencing on August 1, 2020 and ending on J...

Hello all, my wife and I are graduating from college in April. I plan to work full time as an engineer in Texas and will be making right around $100k. My wife would be happy to either get a full time job where she cou...

Hi BP folks,

My husband is in the military and we are planning to begin our real estate investing endeavors with an owner occupied multi family unit somewhere in East bay (Bay Area, CA). Assuming, of course, that I c...

I've been reading @Mark Ferguson's website and been thinking about his loan strategy of taking out 5 year ARMs and focusing on paying off the mortgage within 5 years. I know other buy and hold investors in Bigg...

Most investors favor CF rather than equity build up.

The advice is get a mortgage as long as you can (30+years) so you can have a few more hundred dollars in CF.

This neglects the fact that you pay more...

I just got back from the two day seminar in Houston, been wanting to go for years and after losing 17K on my last flip I decided it was time to pay the $750.00 and go. If you know nothing about real estate I'd say it'...

Joe The Plumber?? WFT? What Next!

So, what do YOU all think about the DEBATE?

My opinion:

Could YOU imagine John McCain at a world summit, lis...