Curious out there what people use as a general rule for how leveraged they are.   How comfortable you are with debt.  Do you have 401K loans?  Would you cash out a Roth IRA?   Do you use HELOCs off your primary?   For...

I'm a relatively new private investor and have begun experimenting with the crowdfunding sites, to get into a wider variety of deals at a lower contribution if the terms and restrictions turn out to be viable, or a...

I recently purchased a 4 unit off market building for $231,000. It was originally listed on the MLS. The numbers in my eyes weren’t terrible so I requested a showing. The realtor wasn’t very helpful and the seller wou...

New to real estate and looking for my first rental. Have been using the rental calculator on every potential property I find in Waukesha, Wisconsin and surrounding towns. Every single property is a bust! Negative cash...

Much ink has been spilled on the subject of Turnkey Companies. However, I do not think we have managed to identify  top 5 Turnkey Companies in America.  I know there are hundreds of companies - perhaps a good place to...

As a newbie with limited capital from which to begin investing, and a Dave Ramsey fan, I'm struggling with how to justify REI knowing he teaches to do everything with cash, including REI. In fact, it would seem that a...

So I am looking to purchase my first property in Ewing New Jersey (after looking at multi family (2-4) in other parts of jersey and NYC), and after doing about 20 calculations for rental properties in the area, and it...

Good morning BP! I wanna talk BRRRR. I understand the basic premise of what brrrr is and how powerful of a strategy it is to use in real estate. I also realize that over paying for a property or over estimating the AR...

I know this one might get a bit controversial, but I think it's important to have this discussion. I started out investing a bit over a year ago and it was just recently I started experiencing some discrimination once...

In another thread, Josh suggested creating FAQs of topics that are often discussed/asked by newer investors on the site. While this isn't inclusive of the awesome contributions by hundreds of other contributors here ...