Hi Everyone!We took possession of our first rental on July 15th and we are self-managing it.  We've prepared a pre-screening questionnaire with guidance from Heather & Brandon Turner's Managing Rental Properties b...

The reason for this post is because I often read other investors post about looking for a property in an area where they have good schools. We did that. We bought a home in Burbank, California, a very expensive suburb...

Hello everyone. I was wondering how possible it is for an individual to do a title search on a property as good as a title company can. If not, what specifically allows a title company to have a more in depth search t...

Hello everyone,I am new to real estate investing, and have been reading some of Robert Kiyosaki's books on investing.For real estate, he says he follows the 100 to 10 to 3 to 1 method. He looks at 100 properties, make...

Hi All : )Haven't posted something for a long timeBack then I was a guy wanted to invest outside of his country, but a lot of things changed and I'm living in the states now : ) San Diego, CA (unfortunately LOL), so n...

I'm wrapping up a deal on a 2 bed, 1 bath house for $55,000 in the Midwest. The rent will be bumped up to $700 a month. After accounting for the mortgage, insurance, taxes, cap-ex, vacancy, and property management (bu...

I am considering buying a duplex in a college town, about 2 blocks from campus.  Does anyone have experience in college towns renting to college students?  Are they more or less reliable making payments?  How do you d...

I'm interested in buying houses in Southern California mountain areas for wholesaling, flipping and buy and hold and wondering if anyone has spent much time doing the same.

Last night on the news there was a story about nightmare tenants George Zimmer and Jennifer Zimmer. They have been screwing landlords in Sioux Falls, Florida and possibly Chicago for years. I heard the name and realiz...