If you've spoken with me for more than 10 minutes, you know I'm a big fan of STRs and AirBnB as both a host (SuperHost, in fact, nbd, just a celebrity here) and as a traveler.  I find that STRs are a great way to ex...

Hi all,I've been landlording for a year now. Earlier in the year, I had two rentals available, posted them online, got plenty of applications, got good tenants, all pretty straightforward. I pride myself on providing ...

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...

I hate everything about the phrase "house hacking". EVERYTHING! The term "house hacking', in my opinion, is derived from the internet culture of hackers; hackers hack websites in order to gain unfair advantages. The s...

A fellow contributor here, John Carbone, sent me a link yesterday to a lot for sale in the Smokies.  The price certainly seemed reasonable.  It so happened that I know the owner of the lot.  He is one of our homeowner...

Hey BP,

I was recently listening to the awesome interview that's in the BP blog that @Douglas Dowell did with securities attorney and syndicator Gene Trowbridge. It was full of some great i...

I used to think that the “big difference” , The “great divide” in investments was between equity and debt.  A number of years later I revised my thinking and thought “business vs real estate”.  Then I came to the conc...

Hello BP Community,I will try and keep this post as short as I can, but ultimately I'm looking to ask the landlord and legal experts in this community about any advice that can be given to my sister-in-law about the s...

This came up in another thread and I thought it worth having its own discussion.

What do you think would encourage those people who come and read the site (available to non-members) to sign up and participate?

Ideas...