Hello BP!I joined the site back in February and have been on a swift ramp up educating myself on all things RE, reading a number of BP books (and their recommendations) and rolling through the first 80 BP podcasts to ...

I just got off the phone with a gentleman selling two duplexes in my target buy area. He asserted that the prices asked were a "solid 8.5% cap," but a quick glance at the numbers reveal that all of the soft costs -...

Hi Everyone!  I invest in Arizona where ownership records are public and quite easy to access.  As such, I get phone calls, letters, and even text messages asking to buy my properties for top dollar and cash.  Quick s...

I'm thinking of buying a 2nd home where we could rent out the basement of the new home as well as renting our current home. I'm really trying to make this about the numbers and not about "getting a new pretty home" bu...

Hi-I'm looking for duplexes, starting small...but of course multi-multi is out there in mass. However, +5 units do come with more things that I need to learn about before just jumping in.What I'm running across are fo...

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Bought a property at the court house steps. I knew the property and knew it was very clean. Well the home's real value was about $400k got it for $245k.

I had called the owners before the sale and said I woul...

1. You would have a ton of questions with no reasonable source to get the correct answers.
2. You would not have a viable source to meet thousands of people from the comfort of your own home or office.
3. You would at...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...Clayton Morris flees the U.S.

Dumb luck (and a ton of work) got me into REI. In 2015 my girlfriend was spending 6/7 nights at my apartment. She had a cool little studio in a cool part of town, and we threw her apartment on Airbnb. A traveling nurs...

I always thought every house purchase automatically required a professional inspection. Is this true? Are there exceptions?

In my conversation with the bank thus far, the topic has not come up yet. So, I'm as...