Listening to all of the podcasts and reading the BP books / Rich Dad Poor Dad types makes it seem like building a portfolio and scaling smart could lead to early retirement and living on cash flow that ultimately repl...

Hello BP,I started my real estate investment career a little over a year ago. I bought my first three properties within two months of each other. Two of these were turn key rentals and the other was a rental rehab tha...

Tenants have been in my rental since February with their dog and they pay $50 month extra as a pet fee. In NJ I cannot accept a pet deposit and security deposit so I decided to add the monthly pet fee.    The dog died...

I just took out a HELOC to use as a down payment an investment property.  My monthly payments will be low (interest only for 10 year draw period), so shouldn't really affect my debt to income ratio much.Once I buy the...

I found an HVAC tech online who had 64/64 five-star reviews on Google Maps. There was nothing but praise for him, so I gave him a shot. He diagnosed my problem as a faulty control board. He quoted me $700 for the boar...

Not screening properly.Not running numbers correctly.Not evicting in time.I want your mistakes and your stories behind those mistakes! Please share below.

Hello- I am based in Southern CA and there are limited options for getting a good deal here. Curuous where everyone is investing? cities/neighborhoods? and STR and LTR and why? I have one investment property that was ...

I thought I would share my story with the hope that it inspires someone to start the home flipping adventure and/or saves someone from making some of the (costly) mistakes that I made. Note that I'm purposely not incl...