I have been reading the BP blog/forums and listening to the podcast almost daily. I've read business books but I have yet to find a resource that will go over the steps of real estate investing. I have had a hard time...

Just a thought, and curious as to others' thoughts on this as well...I've been thinking about the DTI (debt-to-income) ratio used in lending decisions. For those unfamiliar, lenders typically will not lend to a borrow...

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My company is offering 52 weeks of severance pay and benefits and this would be an amazing time to launch a true real estate business. We have one condo currently. I have been told by my mortgage broker it would be di...

While still relatively new to BP, I have begun taking steps to grow our real estate portfolio.  My current project is to use my SDIRA to purchase a turnkey property.  In preparation, I've made contact with both a non-...

I live in the city of Austin Texas where the market is starting to get very expensive to buy a home. I am a first time home buyer and want to take advantage of the lower down payment to purchase my first property for ...

Aloha BP'rs,My wife and I have our son and his family in our rental, which he wants to stay in, and we want to do a 1031 exchange into higher performing assets. The home here on O'ahu has a FMV of about $900k~, a $405...

I posted this in the member blogs last week, but wanted to get some more eyeballs on it.As many of you know, Mister Money Mustache (MMM) wrote a blog post entitled The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement th...

I get hard money and trans deals proposed fairly often that are suspicious or don't pass the smell test even before I start to investigate title, etc. Sometimes my suspicions are correct, sometimes not, often I never...

Hopefully someone is awake to answer this I would like to know if the huge list of "we buy houses for cash" would be a good start to sell a property