Economic Update
(Yom Kippur Edition)
The second quarter of 2020 (April, May & June) was the mother of all economic contractions. Real GDP shrank at a 31.7% annual rate, the largest drop for any quarter since ...

My property manager wants me to lease to a tenant with two great Danes. The house has been recently rehabbed. It has Luxury vinyl Tile Throughout the house. I’m not really certain the right move to make. The PM is sug...

Hello guys and girls this is my first post so try and take it easy on me, but ill give you a little insight on what i would like to do. I'm 24 years old from new york city and my dream is to invest in properties and d...

Hi,I'm curious about the high number of rental unit openings in Pittsburgh vs the population. Are people generally seeing that they're able to rent their units in a reasonable amount of time? I don't have much data on...

Hi BP!My name is Carla Crutcher. I'd been thinking about a strategic way to diversify my investment portfolio to include investments not dependent upon the stock market, then a friend and fellow BP member) told me abo...

I rent a luxury apartment in Jackson, MS, but recently moved out ( I'll be paying rent until the end of my lease on December 27 2022) due to no access to clean or running water.  The entire city is affected by our gov...

Hello BP community,My current tenants would like to replace the appliances I have in my condo. The appliances do work but they are old. She does understand that she agreed on renting the place with current appliances ...

I am looking for a way to get into real estate. In part to find a secondary (and hopefully over time, primary) income stream. But mainly because I LOVE it! I have always been interested in building and designing homes...

January apartment transaction volume, tracked by total dollars traded, ranks as the slowest month since the pandemic lockdown period in spring 2020 (MSCI Real Capital Analytics). This is about what everyone expected, ...

Hi, I'm a Swiss citizen who moved to Thailand 5 years ago for work (I am project manager for a swiss software development company). I am 30 years old and even though I like my job and can live more than comfortably wi...