Hello BiggerPockets network, it is phenomenal to meet everyone! My name is James Olinda, I have been traveling the USA in a DIY renovated Airstream for the past three years with my wife, baby girl and two pups, and it...

First BRRR DealThe BuyThis property is literally just down the street from my personal residence. I have noticed it for the last year since we have moved into our house. The paint was chipping and it was just obvious ...

Hi everyone, I just closed on my first property this past week in Rhode Island. It was a duplex with existing tenants on a month to month tenancy. The tenants did not pay rent for two months while we were under contra...

My dad is retiring and getting rid of a couple of his properties. He asked me if I wanted to look into getting the properties. A year ago I bought a foreclosed duplex with an fha203k loan and owner occupied. I am now ...

Below are pics of what I'm working with. It's an 1880's home and everything I've read says they used pine and the lumber store said it was either pine or fir so I'm guessing it's pine. In my opinion the floor is great...

So I have this property in a D neighborhood (Ybor city, Tampa) and I have a management company managing it. The tenant paid the first and second months promptly, the third was late and the forth which was supposed to ...

I need a reality check from those in the business.  Is it feasible to begin with a multi family near the bay area?I live in San Francisco, but work in Palo Alto.  I believe I'm priced out of purchasing in my high COL ...

Hello All!I'm a new RE investor and have been lurking around BP for quite some time now. So here's my story...  After some research on a  neighborhood, on the internet and physically driving around the entire neighbor...

Hello BP Community, I have a question regarding one of my new tenants. I had a tenant sign a lease with me at the end of May. On paper she passed with flying colors - 3X income, good credit, positive landlord referenc...

Has anyone else read this?

Housing: The one bailout America could really use

Definitely interesting. From the article:

"On top of the 2.5 million homes that have already fallen to foreclosure since the bubble burs...