Back story: August 2011 my family moved from TX to MS. My dad had moved from MS to TN and his house in MS had been on the market but not selling. He agreed to sell us his MS property at no interest so that he wouldn't...

Hi everyone,My job allows me to work with clients that have real estate investment portfolios and work with real estate agents and after talking to many of them I concluded that it seems that the rule of thumb for buy...

Have any of you installed a gas fireplace and had a tv on the same wall above it? I see it done on Houzz, and in magazines all the time, however; how practical is it? Is the TV too high?  Is there too much heat off th...

I'm currently working on development plans for two small office properties, one in Annapolis, MD and one in Washington, DC.

Cap rate on both , conservatively, would be approximately 7.2% ; that's at my sell p...

My husband is in the process of buying a house (our first very own ) -a short sale we located, in NJ -seemed a really good deal at 250K in a neighborhood where any house worth buying would be in the mid 300K range....

First off, I did search forums and these are the two answers I got :

"My best advice and the safest advice for you, don't estimate rehab costs for them. There are too many factors outside of your control that contrib...

Hello Bigger Pockects Family,

I hope everyones 2012 is going as great as 2011 went. website. I have both enjoyed and learned a tremendous amount from reading the posts and blogs from this site. I use the postcard ...

What would you folks do as landlords. Tenant just moved in last month. Gave full deposit and first month's rent in advance. Upon moving in tenant pointed out the hot water heater was not working. This was verified to ...

I know the general consensus is that you should have an LLC for protection but I was wondering if anyone decided to forego an LLC (for maybe an umbrella policy) when they had a single property? I'm in California so LL...

Im considering a self directed IRA.  Does anyone have experience with them?  There are a fair number of rules and regulations, but I'd like to learn more if someone has real world experience.  Questions that come to m...