My contractor says he charges $1000 a day for a crew of three plus materials of my picking. He gave me general # of day estimates room by room. It's difficult to get a contractor to even look at a house if you don't a...

A house was recently withdrawn from the market because a potential buyer had a meth inspection that came back with high levels of meth contamination - indicative of a lab rather than just smoking it inside. Public rec...

I brought aboard a new rental property recently (rented for September 1st).  It's a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom cape cod. The primary reason I purchased this property was the neighborhood.  I really liked how nice it was an...

Hi BP, I'm proud to say we finally took the plunge and bought our first property! It's a 1920's craftsman duplex, 2/1 + 1/1 with one vacant unit and a 15-year tenant in the other (luckily no rent control so they're ne...

I posted an article on BP in March that was an article featured of me in Business Insider that headlined "A 24-year-old college dropout explains how he went from $10,000 in savings to $4 million in real estate". At th...

I am curious to know how people feel about renting to college students?  That is, a 2/2 or 3/2 at least.  The house is close to the university (and there are a hand full in the same neighborhood/street that are for sa...

Alright, big step forward for me as I've just completed my first property analysis using the Four Square worksheet.Property is in Sacramento, CA. It's a triplex, and I would be house hacking it.Assuming I also paid m...

I purchased a positive cash flowing property last summer, for cash and am now (finally) looking to do a cash-out refi to pull the cash to use on another property. My other properties were all purchased with traditiona...

Hi BP,I’ve had passion on real estate investment after reading rich dad. I am a physician having really busy schedules with quite decent income. What I am realizing is that REI is not really passive. I even looked at ...

We're closing on our 4th rental tomorrow. We've bought one each year since 2015. When we bought the first one I was so overwhelmed with excitement and terror that it was hard to sleep for days. Would I fail? Would I s...