Hello everyone. I just joined BP today and look forward to learning from everyone and sharing whatever knowledge I have (or experiences). Full Disclosure; I am not a REI, have never bought property for investment an...

Hi BP forum,I am an aspiring real estate investor. I have listened to countless episodes of the various podcasts, read several BP books (Set For Life, Book on Rental Property Investing, First Time Homebuyer, and curre...

I am making about $140,000 a year, I have about 80k saved up, and I want to buy my own place and start house hacking. I currently live in Malden, MA and the house prices seem to hover from about 675 - 760k for a house...

Heard it more than once in podcasts that a good rule of thumb is getting a property rented out for 2% of the purchase price. Question: which market is this applicable? Is this only on certain states and expensive prop...

Hi All-I'm about to conduct my first rent increase and I'm looking for suggestions on how to create a letter that is polite, yet accomplishes the task.  The tenants are good people but I want to stay reasonably close ...

Why do you feel you need to "work" for someone 9 to 5 or whatever it may be? Why is it that you take time out of your personal life and sit in a 4x6 cubicle, 5 days a week or may be even 7! I had this discussion with...

In November 2023, Fannie Mae introduced a new policy allowing owner-occupant loans on 2-4 family homes with just 5% down, a significant change from the previous requirement of a minimum 15% down payment. One might thi...