I bought a house in Kansas City, MO last year and noticed that the driveway had significant issues.  It has large cracks  and is uneven due to an extremely large tree growing right next to it. By large, i mean a diame...

Dealing only with the Listing Agent in hopes of getting a better deal?

Not a good strategy, because if the listing agent is getting the whole 6%, they'll actually work harder to make you pay the ...

From my experience as an entrepreneur, and more recently an investor, I'm surprised by how many people never really think about inflation.  Here's the case schiller inflation adjusted housing chart going back to the y...

I've heard good things about the fiberglass drywall tape, so I decided to try it. It's good stuff.

But here's the problem. I don't seem to be able to mud it without the web showing through. Is there some sort of new ...

I have a corporate job with health benefits and and decent pay into 6 figures.  I have been building a rental portfolio of mostly single family homes which is now debt free.  I am just wondering when did others cut th...

The ground floor of my duplex apartment is below-grade and has experienced water infiltration. I only recently bought the property and have repaired the leaks I can identify, but one appears to be coming from the outs...

Morning all!!...ok so I've been on BP now for 6 months and seem to have missed something really basic. My wife and I are committed to the RE business, but one question keeps popping up. How do afford/qualify to build ...

There's a lot of uncertainty floating through the air recently.When you speak to hundreds of investors each month you begin to notice trends.With the recent down-turn in the stock market, speaking with investors recen...

I just had 2 days worth of work done in my first investment property.I paid the GC half of the job's total before work began.It all took two days and I'm pleased with the results. Upon reviewing the work last night [a...

cc: @James Hamling So today is very interesting. Job market is extremely robust that we add 300k jobs than 150k predicted job. In theory this should not be good news because then Fed would have reason to keep the inte...