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...

I am writing this because I see so many post about Midwest properties and while mine was a rather easy (though still sot money) issues to fix not all of these situations will be. Let me start with do you have your tit...