Hello everybody,                          I am a newbie investor from chicago land area and this is my first post. I have been following real estate investing and got in touch with a real estate agent who is working w...

Hey y'all!  I am looking at a PNL report for an apartment complex, and I am confused about a couple things.  These might seem like dumb questions, but hey, I'm brand new to this!  1.  What is the depreciation expense?...

This is long, so read at your own risk, but I hope that you will. I want to thank @lawrence moore who started the thread asking about owning your investment outright or leveraging.  That thread had some good discussi...

PDAs weren't good enough for Mr. Jobs, he had to go create an iPhone (which many of us now can't live without). He was relentless about trying to give the user the best possible experience. I wonder how he would reinv...

I recently purchased a rental property.  It is a four unit apartment building.  There are only two electric meters, one of which covers three units and the other covers a single unit.  There are three gas meters.  One...

So I will try to describe as briefly as I can my latest experience. Been in the market for an investment property the last 3 weeks or so. Started looking in the area I currently live in, as many people know in Hawaii ...

As I was out shopping today for my current project in Dallas, I got a call from my sister telling me that her and my mom were being taken to the hospital due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The average reading insid...

Did you find any good july 4th deals , Location is immaterial , Just post here .If you dont have a good deal , but have a good strategy , post it hereI am leaning towards the Kitchen sets in home depot , they seem to ...

My husband and I bought a fixer upper duplex (both sides) and it's been rough. We've just about finished with one side and would like to get it rented so we can at least get some sort of income while we fix up the o...

Our tenant was out of power because we had to replace our breaker box, partly due to a storm recently, it took 3 days due to July 4th weekend nobody was available. We put the tenant in a hotel for 2 nights while we tr...