My wife and I are ready to purchase our first multi-family, first investment property.  I was driving by a triplex in a low income neighborhood for 95k and grosses $1400/month.  After I scoped out the property, I came...

I recently contracted a landscaping company to do a complete overhaul at my rental. Today, the tenant contacts me unhappy that they were using Round-Up as it contains glyphosate. Trying to reassure her, I sent her lin...

A recent post questioned whether owners buy flood insurance. There were a few posts and replies.
I've owned properties and paid insurance on well over 1000 homes in the last 40 years. Do you know how many insura...

Im seeing a trend, several kids have been posting on BP wanting to be Investors. As many of you did I posted on one of their posts which I now regret.
I’m reading thru the posts and I don’t believe BP is the place for...

So as many know the SB1070 was to go into place at 12:01am tonight but the judge just ruled blocking the KEY components of the law.

Law enforcement are not required to make a reasonable attempt to determine immigrat...

Ok. We are in deflation now, and we don't know how long it is going to last.

Because of our government, we know that eventually interest rates, taxes, and inflation are going to go up, up, up. The most important pri...

What can a buy&hold guy do to shave an extra $100 off monthly expenses without taking on additional work for himself? Tips I've gathered so far are a combination of the following: challenge property taxes, shop fo...

Hey,For those of you who operate Airbnb's and other short term rentals or vacation rentals what advice do you wish you would have had earlier when you first got started?I think a few good ones are structuring your bus...

Hi everyone. A long time lurker, hopefully a soon-to-be first time RE investor. I live in NYC and would like to get into REI. Given the sky-high prices in the area, I'm turning to out-of-state properties. I've looked ...

Does anyone actually go and visit prospective tenants at their current resident to see what kind of shape it is in and how well its taken care of? I started doing this if im not 100% sure about them. Some of them don'...