I am looking to get into REI and have six figures in retirement accounts to potentially obtain multi family in Chicago market.

Friend / Mentor uses Equity Trust Company to purchase and hold real estate in IRA throug...

Dear All, I know this must be a newbie question: how to qualify for a loan on a second or even 3rd property when your income is not great. A little back story here: My husband and I bought our first home, a $130,000 o...

This house has been empty for four years.  Well upside down on the mortages.  It took me a long time to find the owner - and actually I am still one step away:  presently talking with the previous owner - the aunt of ...

Hi everybody!  I'm a newbie.  bought my first house in February and had it rented May 1st.   Late July my tenant sent me a text with a sob story about a fraudulent check he deposited, he wouldn't have the rent on the ...

Does anyone do their own accounting? I'm trying to set up "asset" reserve accounts for Vacancy, repair & maintenance, and cap ex. how do you do this or are you accruing your expenses? How do you save for the expen...

Hello Everyone! I just discovered Bigger Pockets about a month ago and am totally obsessed. I am a new investor and looking to purchase my first multi family, ideally a fourplex but open to a duplex or triplex. I have...

Hello BP Familly:
I am a first-time poster and long-time lurker of the BP forums and have been reading and educating myself using the BP resources for the last year. I've been listening to as many episodes of the pod...

Hello, all. I've worked as a court reporter for the past seven years, but being that I live in what I call "Podunkville," small-town living, there is not enough court reporting work available in my neck of the woods ...

Ok, I called the seller's agent to let him know that I want to make an offer. The house was sitting for 600k, lots of work had to be done on it and for whatever reason the seller needed to close by the 5th of October....

There have been several threads here on BP lately about the legality issues when seller financing to consumers. New, apparently stricter federal regs are in place to start 1/2014.

I've posted before that I've been...