Do you reward your Residents at their lease anniversary, if so how?One of our policies is to reward a resident at their lease anniversary with a gift card to a very large national retail store in our market. The longe...

Economic Update
(Monday, August 31, 2020)

The US economy got crushed in the second quarter, with the worst decline in real GDP for any quarter since the Great Depression. However, the good news for real estate...

I would appreciate some input on an old 60s bathroom.  It is a rental apartment and I am reworking some plumbing behind the walls.This is a picture of the bathroom.  As you can see ugly teal 4" ceramic wall tiles, whi...

I'm looking at some turnkey properties. I see property managers charging just 8% of rent and thats not much considering rent can be less than a 1k a month. I also seen turnkey rentals where they even set up the LLC...

Hey BP!I now have an 8 unit property under contract in North Carolina. This is my first commercial purchase and first multi-family. I would like to hear from the community any advice, tips, or lessons learned for th...

I'm a free-market person, but if the autos go under, we'll have millions of more people without work. Do you guys think we need a bailout or maybe some of you have some other ideas?

This question is for the folks who Buy cheap, Rehab fully, Rent, Refi, and Repeat (BRRRR strategy). I want to know how you make it work. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:Purchase price: $10,000Rehab (everyt...

I'm new here and analyzing the economics of buy and hold real estate here in the bay area.  In most of my calculations, the best return I can achieve is about 6-9% annualized return for a 10-30 year period which is qu...

At the end of almost every podcast for many years, they used to ask, "What separates those that succeed from those that fail?" or something along those lines. Over the years I've worked with somewhere in the range of ...