When using the 50% rule to evaluate rental properties what expenses are included in the 50%? Are taxes and insurance included in the 50%?

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Hello All,I've been doing a ton of research on the 2008 market crash.  I feel like I've garnered a strong understanding of what happened and why, however there is one thing I feel I am missing.  What steps could a sma...

Hi All,I wanted to get your professional opinion on this property that I'm thinking about putting in an offer on. This quite possibly may be my first commercial property deal, and I'm just a bit nervous about pulling ...

I'd imagine there's a board with this, or a similar amount already but I couldn't find it... My question is, if you had 80-100K to invest where would you prefer to start? Numerous SFH, just 1 SFH, multi-family, apartm...

I wish I had become more involved in real estate 20 years ago...

Hi AllConventional loans for residential property cover single family, duplex, triplex or fourplex. If I want to maximise each available loan without going into jumbo loan territory ($424k limit) it would be ideal to ...

I'm on a Portland, OR real estate broker's email list (I was thinking about buying in Portland a few months ago) and received what appears to be a pretty alarming change the city council is trying to pass this Thursda...

Hello!So I'm looking into purchasing 10 houses from one owner. These houses are small (7 have 1 bedroom 1 bath/ 2 have 2 bedrooms and 1 bath/ 1 has 3 bed rooms and 1 bath/ all are around 1000 sq ft or smaller.) My hus...

There are so many loan options out there, that I need help focusing my education to the most important ones, and that raises the first question I am having a hard time understanding.For the experienced BRRRR investors...

If you had 600k to start in rental property investing, what kind of home would you go for? I will have that much available to me in one year. 
To give some more info, I live in San Diego where you can find a 1,000-sq...