Off-the-wall question for all of you who collect your own rents ...Is anyone using the Square point-of-sale device to collect rents via credit or debit card?Just wondering if that would be a viable option.

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...

I know that HML is a lose term, but I'd define it as loaning money for interest plus points once a deal has been verified. It seems like I could make a lot more as a professional JV, partnering in the profits 50/50 an...

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...

Bill Gulley,

How does one go about evaluating a vacant commercial property?

I'm thinking about making my first real estate purchase, an out of state rental property, and wondering the best way to go about finding and analyzing a property.Do people who are investing out of state typically pick...

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...

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 ...

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...