Ok, you buy a property at a trustee sale. However, upon entering your new property, you find that the previous occupants have left lots behind.

Items left might range from furniture and appliances to boats.

What is...

Happy Friday! I purchased an inheritance list from US Lead List for 4 counties as my local area is quite small. I have the mailers ready to mail with a great yellow letter, but I wanted to make sure a local title co...

So I previously wrote this forum post about IF 2.0; https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/80/topics/679...Since that time I have made several updates on that post but I wanted to get another post out with a more accura...

I've got an unusual situation I've never dealt with before. I was contacted by a seller trying to sell her mother's home AS-IS (mother is alive, but in a nursing home with severe dementia). The mother is on Medicaid t...

A seller told me he hasnt paid for 9 months.His payments are 850. That would be 7,650, But what about penalties, taxes, attorneys, etc etc. How can I know exactly how much I’d have to pay in order to get the seller ou...

After reading many posts on the forums for the last month or so I decided it was time to officially introduce myself. My name is Bill Andrae and I have spent the last 10 years or so living in Madison, WI ( GO Badgers...

Now that I am preparing to "turn up" the metaphor "heat" on my new real estate investing career, I have heard a little of this and  little of that about qualified retirement plans (QRPs). Could anyone give me advice o...

I recently purchased my second property in a condominium complex located in a St. Louis suburb. I am looking for some feedback on whether to require a damage deposit or charge a non-refundable move in fee. 1. Damage D...

I need to break my contract with my Property Manager, but I am unsure whether or not my reasons have legal standing. It says that unless it is for legal reasons, I will be charged the remaining property management fee...

My wife and I are buying our first investment property. Our son will be living there to attend medical school over the next four years. It's a four bedrooms house, and he has already found three roommates each of who...