I've just graduated from college, and don't start my new engineering job for another week. In the mean time, I've been reading a bunch of books and attending seminars on how to manage my finances. One of the first ...

Hello!We're trying to purchase our second rental property. It is two homes on one piece of land and sold "as-is", which we understood to mean the seller would make no repairs. It appeared to be in good condition but w...

I have been doing this LL thing for 6 years now. My average annual vacancy rate for my business is around 7%. That is taking all the occupied weeks and dividing by all of the available weeks (X100).

I usually have ...

Here is a case study on investing out of state for us California investors and being a landlord of section 8 housing in lower end markets.

Anyone attending the tax sales in August?

Million dollar tax bill owed in ...

There have been many discussions about this being a sellers market, and prices are high.In my market (between Chicago and Milwaukee), prices are high, but many of the properties still would cash flow well.When I run t...

Hey everyone, I'm new to this home ownership deal and am currently doing some rehab to my basement. I have had to stop all repairs being done to my house because the contractor sent me a bill of an additional $38K on ...

Title says it all. The additional details are that the top tenant has been there for 4 years and the bottom tenant has only lived there since August. I was wanting to raise the rent $50-$75 for the top unit (3 be...

Can an investor somehow pay the owner of a depressed property a fee to have them quitclaim the property over to them in an effort to keep the sales history at market value and to not negatively impact the value of com...

REI'S! What are your opinions and/or dealings with turnkey investment properties? I have been looking into a couple of companies that specialize in turnkey properties. Are these good properties to invest in? If so, ar...