Just listed my house for rent Saturday.  Got a 3rd call today from an out of state tenant who now says she wants to rent my house, sight unseen, and offered to pay a years worth of rent upfront with a $100/mo (6%) dis...

Hello All,I just received applications for our first tenants ever. They have passed all of our screens (criminal, credit, etc) and in general, I feel good about it. But there are some quirks:• It is 4 people total. A ...

I was cleaning out the basement of one of our rentals...
I saw something stuck in a corner behind a bolted on rack of shelves. I couldn't quite get to it and had to unbolt the whole unit from the wall. Worth it.
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I hear the words “Cap Rate “ a lot. What is a cap rate and why re they important? Is it something added onto a loan interest rate or maybe equity in a property? What is a good cap rate?

So how much longer can this boom continue around here?  I live in Palo Alto, where I have my main residence.  I own rental properties in San Mateo, Foster City and East Palo Alto.  The one in East Palo Alto I only pur...

I’m a huge Grant Cardone fan and have been for a long time. I’ve been debating for awhile whether to get into real estate investing on my own or investing in his crowdfunding company Cardone Capital. He sure makes it ...

I recently got a letter in the mail from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation.

It stated that I has committed a 3rd degree felony because properties i had listed on sites like Hotpads &am...

Hi folks - I wanted the BP community opinion on an off-topic finance related thought.It seems to me like a ton of millennials, and more of whatever the next generation is called, are graduating college with massive st...

In most instances, I would assume it is for two reasons. To generate passive income which will help eliminate the need to work and to help with our retirement.

Normally about this time of year, various magazines come...

I searched for Velocity Banking but did not get anything to return except for some lenders using that name. I just was introduced to this strategy this week and was curious if anyone has done it and what their experie...