I am currently looking to purchase my first two rental properties. Ideally I would like to purchase one single family and one multifamily. My question for this post is about the financing of those properties. Fr...

In terms of the widening gap between US and Canadian house prices since 2006, this seems to be a strange economic phenomenon. It is almost as if the US prices are artificially suppressed as both markets appear to have...

Hi Everyone,I'm a first time homebuyer looking to do a BRRRR in San Antonio but am struggling to estimate rehab costs. Does anyone have a framework they use to calculate rehab costs?Thanks for your consideration,Isa

I live in Portland, Oregon and recently quit my job as a Physical Therapist and became a real estate agent. My wife is relatively new real estate attorney. What I didn’t totally comprehend when switching careers was h...

I have wonderful long-term tenants whose lease ends June 30th. I purposely made it this way so that it doesn't renew in the winter. The tenants informed me that they are looking for a home to purchase and would like t...

Hey guys I'd like to know a bit on so called "renovation loan".  Not the FHA 203K loan, but conventional. One loan officer noted only 5% down of the ARV is required, while another said she has never seen anything lowe...

There is an auction tomorrow in my local area. I am trying to assess the property value of it.

I can't find a good comp. In the Foreclosure auction, there is a property tax value in 2009 of $1700, which puts around ...

Quick question BP'ers,

I'm spending lots of time analyzing properties these days, but I'm wondering where do I go to get the cap rate and vacancy rate on any given area? It isn't always given in a listing, along with...

At least once a week I get told by someone that they are thinking about investing (whether passively or actively), but they are not ready to start yet. The majority of people I talk to are actually pretty knowledgeabl...

Is it because most people don’t like marketing? Is it because subject to’s can be very risky in terms of the certainty of making payments and the potential loss of equity built? Is it because people don’t want to deal...