I’m 25 years old and I have been saving for about the last 2 years to be able to start investing in real estate. My biggest concern is that I’m worried may still not the the time. My ultimate goal is to make enough mo...

My 94-year-old dad has a rental outside of Sacramento. Small town, in the country, 2/1 on one acre.  My sister and I have delt with it but different opinions on how to manage it so it's now 95% my sister.  The tenant ...

Hello,My tenant just let us know that her son (11 months) just tested positive for lead poisoning. We also live there and just had a baby 5 months ago and she advised us that we need to get our son tested ASAP (it is ...

I am looking at purchasing a building built in 1920. I am assuming there is lead paint there. A visual inspection looks okay but there are no lead certs. There are children under 6 living in the building. Build...

Lenders...I have a question about how you all calculate Debt-To-Income so I can work backwards and determine how much income someone would need to qualify for a loan.We are writing some software to model real estate p...

Hey all,First post here, but have been absorbing the BP podcast every second I can. I have very little real estate experience, I own just my home, fairly knowledgeable in investing, but now I want to bring the two tog...

I currently have a LLC registered in the state of Illinois. If I were to buy an out of state property, what's the best way to go about holding that property? Can I hold it in my Illinois registered LLC or should I cre...

Gov. Cuomo is trying to outlaw income discrimination for housing. The bill he is introducing in NY will disallow any discrimination based on a resident's source of income (i.e. Section 8, non-wage income sources). Thi...

I've received two applications for my two bed rental condo. The first application was from a nice couple with a one-year-old child. They make a little over 3x rent, have a small dog, and had positive reviews from prio...

I have to post what happened to me today. I had a prior tenant who looked good on paper but he always was late with the rent. I meant to charge late fees, but he was always contrite and apologized and so I never ...