Hi BP members, I'm about to order some books on negotiation and would love you input.What is the best book or books you've read on the topic of negotiation? Has the book's content actually helped you improve as a nego...

I came across this really interesting study on worldwide housing affordability."The 13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey covers 406 metropolitan housing markets (metropolitan areas) in ni...

I'm an out of state investor living in Tacoma, WA. I own a property in Fayetteville, NC that I bought in January of 2021 and have never missed a payment on. When my PM visited the property this morning they found fore...

The brand (Carrier, Rheem, Lennox, Trane, etc) or the company that installs it?I'm starting to have companies give me estimates for replacing my two rental units HVAC systems and after a little research have come acro...

I am looking for multifamily commercial property, of 12 units or more. I found listings  basically give  limited information about the property, such as a listing in Pennsylvania,  16 unit  for 1,600,000 the ad procee...

Under current tax law, your building is set to depreciate over 27.5 or 39 years. But many assets like lighting, carpeting and cabinetry depreciate much faster than that.

Which means you shouldn’t have to wait all t...

I have been running into a few issues lately with older houses that aren't grounded. In this particular house I am finishing off the basement including new wiring however the rest of the house is old wiring and no...

Thought a few of you might enjoy this article on investing in Yuan with Chinese bank accounts:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704307404576080222812076888.html

     Hi everyone, so just sitting here digesting the many cap-ex postings and discussions surrounding Ben and Serge's blog posting on Cap-ex. It really made me think and certainly has changed the way I look at real-es...

the more i think about it.. the more i wonder if the proper approach to buying a house is to find houses on my own and schedule walkthroughs for each house by contacting the listing agent for that house. if i like t...