First a little bit of background on the house: it is a 3 bed 1.5 bath cape cod, in an older neighborhood of a class A suburb outside of Milwaukee. It was listed on the MLS, had been bank owned for about 5 years and wa...

Hi everyone! I am totally new here, so I hope you'll excuse my newbie-ness.I am located in Southern NH (about an hour north of Boston). I've been looking to buy a home for myself and my two boys. It's been very diffic...

So I've  been so diligent in my study of real estate investing for the previous 3 months or so and have wanted to get into real estate since I was 16. However life choices hampered those plans which were not so well l...

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I am wondering how you guys are doing accounting and bookkeeping for your rentals, doing by yourself, hiring bookkeeper or hiring accountant? I am currently managing the bookkeeping and accounting mysel...

Hi there-I am in debt to credit cards. I have a low-paying job and at this point, no retirement. I am in my mid-50's, so I am a late bloomer to investing. I thought that claiming Chapter 7 would be a good idea, in ord...

Hey BP! not having much luck getting responses in the forums, but I'll keep trying. I have been thinking about the worse case or "nightmare" tenant situation. This of course involving extensive amounts of purposeful d...

I have a tenant that has been complaining about mice. Just wondering what the typical course of action is to get rid of them. The tenants are not very clean people which makes think this will be an uphill battle. Do p...

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I'm looking at doing a rehab of a 4 unit building (3100 sqft) and I was wondering what people thought about flooring. I don't want to use the home depot bargain bin flooring, as I have not had good ex...

The sun was just peaking over the mountains in an area typically packed with hikers called “Dreamy Draw”, a mecca of crisscrossing hiking trails in the center of Phoenix Arizona. Splitting these mountains, thousands o...

Anyone, and I really mean anyone that is doing any form of construction/rehab, a word of warning: Always buy whatever materials (lumber, cabinets, flooring, sheetrock, plumbing, tile, sprinkler system, lighting, etc.,...