Hello beautiful people of BP, Today is one of those days that made me feel dumb. But the good news, I finally "get" something instead of just knowing about it. For a long while, I felt that way about Return On Equity ...

I want to hear your most basic thoughts about buying properties with visible foundation problems. I understand there can be a huge spectrum of problems with consequences varying from "can't play a fair game of marb...

So here's a little background on my situation. Just wanted to get some input from you guys on how one should handle this particular situation. I purchased my first rental property, a bank owned townhouse approx. 1 yea...

Hello, After reading books( rich dad poor dad, etc) , and listening to BP, I've decided I really want to get my life on a path of financial freedom, and free of my restrictive parents. My goal is to have my first prop...

What is everyone's opinion on Harry Dent? He points out that real estate has pretty consistently gone up over most of our life times because of the baby boomers, but now that they are down-sizing and dying off, real e...

I've been dealing with a couple of property sales for the past few months and have horror stories to share! I won't get into all of the details, but in essence, in both sales, I've got HIGHLY qualified buyers with gr...

Look at what can happen to a gated community that don't pay there taxes.http://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/542076983/wealthy-san-francisco-neighborhood-fails-to-pay-taxes-loses-private-street?utm_source=facebook.com&ut...

Is it just my imagination or is the residential housing market here getting a little soft? Looking at the stats everything still looks good. Only a couple of worrying signs.The percent of original price didn't get qui...

I recently had an issue with the power going out in a Chicago unit of mine. ComEd turned the power off due to non-payment(though ComEd never warned me or tenants which they are required to do by Illinois law), but I h...

For the last few months, i've been VERY eager to start my vision of becoming financially free through the house hacking method.  I've listed to MANY BP podcasts explaining how people buy a duplex or 3-4 unit property ...