My theory is if a tenant pays on time and takes care of the house, leave the rent alone until they move on and then adjust it for a new tenant.Have heard so many times from friends where their landlord raises it and t...

In a competitive market, you would expect real estate commissions to get competed down between brokers.   For reasons I don't understand, commissions stay high across all brokers at around 5% to 6% per deal.   Can som...

We had the sidewalk and driveway redone on the tenant side of our duplex. Yesterday the concrete was poured. This afternoon I noticed that a smile, a pentagram and a third illegible mark had been inscribed in the now ...

Hi everyone I’m in the middle of my first flip. I locked up a single family home (roughly 2600 sq feet) with 5 beds and 3 baths for $454,000.The ARV for the area tells us we can probably sell the house for 685-700k on...

Of course your individual results can vary.   There are people fighting this post too.   What are you seeing in your market?

Reposted from Twitter....Nick Gerli@nickgerli1   The Airbnb collapse is real.

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Over the years of landlording and owning property in a college town, I have noticed that my Special Stipulations section in my leases have taken on some strange phrases and warnings to new tenants. It seems that e...

I'm a PASSIVE buy and hold investor.  I have property managers and I buy from turnkey providers.I want to barely look at my monthly statements and let my investment grow as passive as I can.That "passive" investing be...

Off-the-wall question for all of you who collect your own rents ...Is anyone using the Square point-of-sale device to collect rents via credit or debit card?Just wondering if that would be a viable option.

Hey guys,

How do you go about getting seller financing? Do you just ask the seller if they are familiar to the topic and then give them more information?

In addition, what if the seller uses an agent? Do you just p...

There have been several threads here on BP lately about the legality issues when seller financing to consumers. New, apparently stricter federal regs are in place to start 1/2014.

I've posted before that I've been...