Hi All, My goal is to purchase a multi family rental in 2018 and house hack it. I'm curious to know how much you all budgeted for reserves when you purchased your first deal? Would you take your 401k into consideratio...

We had our offer accepted on our first rental property and after looking up the current tenants, we've got a convicted, registered sexually violent predator against children in this triplex. Repeat offender. Anyone de...

In an earlier thread, I described my concerns about getting out a problem tenant.  They actually did move out on time yesterday, thats the good news.  Bad news is that in the process they removed/threw away all the dr...

I could be wrong but it feels like in general PM companies aren't very active on BP. Also one of the biggest pain points for successful rental investing seems to be PM. It seems really weird they aren't more active.I ...

Alright, so it might not be "breaking news" but it's news to some.  So many of the threads and forums I’ve read since joining BP in 2018 have pushed the power of leverage and maintaining a high LTV to boost your ROI a...

At the end of March I'm going to a wedding in Tucson AZ, and am planning to turn it into a vacation by heading to California from there. Wondering where to go? What to check out? I often fantasize about moving there a...

Would be very interested in some feedback. I've been managing apartments and houses for nine years and this is a first.

We hired someone to trim the hedges at one of our properties. While trimming, one of the resid...

It seems that the general consensus for a rental property loan would be a 30 year loan, and I used to agree. The idea is that you can use the cash flow to pay the loan if you want to, or use it for a higher returning ...

This is the BEFORE chart for today below. (source: https://www.mortgagenewsdaily....)     ... in about 20 minutes we find out if we raise .25bp  .50bp (expected) or possibly more.   I wonder what this chart will look ...