Hi everyone,

I'm a new BP member living in southern California. I haven't quite found my niche yet, but I find myself being really drawn to the buy and hold type of investing.

It seems like buy and hold...

My offer was accepted on a 14 unit apartment.  I knew it needed new windows and was built in 1950.  In the purchase agreement forms we signed, he wrote NONE in the disclosures.  He showed the best (only good ones) 3 u...

Ok, so I was scanning Craigslist and came across an ad that basically went like this.

"Are you an out of town investor? Want to buy property but don't want to jump on a plane in order to see it? Let me help you! For ...

We rented our home out to a family on Section 8. It was our first rental and we made errors did not do our due diligence. We discovered several violations against their lease agreement early on but faced the challenge...

First, I'm confused as to what exactly caused the housing bubble of 2007. It sounds like people were unable to pay their mortgages, thus resulting in foreclosure, but why were they suddenly unable to pay in the first ...

I bought 2 triplexes in blue collar areas. I am very good landlord, I always fix things on time. I'll do extra stuff - for example last week it came down to repair the fridge or buying a new one. I went with buying a ...

I was informed today by my property manager that he keeps all the late payments when tenants pay rent late. Is that the norm or should I contest this? I know it could probably go either way and depends on what is in t...

I'm young and trying to learn as much about real estate property rental investing as possible. Like a lot of first time investors, I'm looking to break in through multi-family properties. I reached out to my grandpa (...

The basic information for this post has come from the book Aftershock written by David Wiedemer and Robert Wiedemer with the assistance of Cindy Spitzer. These are the same authors that four years ago wrote America's ...

Real estate is a good enough investment as is - why tell people fairy tales?First off, I am talking about pure passive investing. If people want to get into the real estate BUSINESS, and do all the labor that is in...