Hi there! I'm looking to hop out of the corporate rat race after having been laid off twice in the last year. I am currently in California and am looking to get into real estate investing and would love your thoughts ...

I am perpetually game planning future moves and this exercise inevitably requires taking a position on how the near future will unfold and the best way to benefit. I am interested in hearing what BP users think is abo...

Max here...

I've hit a figurative brick wall! 6 months ago when I started "wholesaling," I thought I'd be in much different place by now. The "this is going to be easy" mentality was never present. I've alway...

I'll be 55 this and our last one graduates high school and will go off to college this year.  My wife and I a debt free and own 15 rental properties worth around 1.5 million (net after sale taxes).  We also have healt...

All:My handyman just called me and said that a floor joist was split underneath one of my college student rentals. Five guys live there and had friends over for the Super Bowl on Sunday night. They claim it was only "...

Hi I'm doing a rehab and pulled out walls of a load bearing hallway to combine two bedrooms to a master suite. Problem is a few things, the floor upstairs feels like a trampoline because the old owner who had built th...

I'm one year into being a landlord, and I loved it for about the first six months--in spite of numerous challenges. I could handle it! My motto was "Nothing's gonna stop this cowgirl!" I rode high in that saddle.But t...

I'm looking to potentially write an article on vacation rentals and would love to talk with some folks about their experiences with vacation rentals. If this is you, jump in this thread and let us know a brief version...

We may be witnessing the largest financial collapse in centuries. Take a step back and look at what is happening:

ï‚· Subprime meltdown
ï‚· Housing bubble
ï‚· Foreclosure crisis
ï‚· Bear Stearns collapse
ï‚· Country...

Right now , rates are higher than they have been in a while . prices are up on Real Estate around the country . Insurance rates , rents , utilities are higher .  Now there are an estimated 5 million people who have cr...