What have been your hardest lessons learned in short term rentals? I'd be curious to hear the experiences that others have had. I'd say my hardest lesson learned is overestimating how quickly a new property will reach...

Hi BP,It's always nice when you get to click "Real Estate Success Stories" as your Forum Category:)I would just like to share with the community that I am now an owner of 2 properties, because I just closed my 2nd dea...

In your opinion, is 30% a reasonable fee to pay a property manager to do the following:
- Arrange for interior designer/furnishing property (actual expenses I have to pay)
- Promote/advertise rental and respond to a...

I have had one of the worst experiences with rehabbing a home in Glendale Heights, IL (Suburb of Chicago) with the city inspectors. Some of the most picky, arrogant, expensive, nastiest, non-cooperative inspectors tha...

I have a female tenant in her 30s with a young daughter.  She started on March 15, 2023 on a 1 year lease.  She keeps texting and calling about every problem that is there or not there.  She wanted me to refinish tub....

Anyone else dealt with this and what did you do? I had several properties being managed by an Ohio property management company. I recently sold all the properties.  I have a pretty large balance sitting in an account ...

I'm a newbie and still doing research. I'm interested in wholeselling pre-foreclosure however from what I've been reading it's pretty difficult to accomplish. I have a good process for finding pre-Foreclosures but I'm...

Have you partnered up with someone on a real estate deal, where it got really ugly for one reason or another? Do you have a partnership horror story?

If so, please share it so we can all learn how to protect ourselv...

Hello, Im planning ahead and wondering how some of you have managed the rehab and your contract. Once you have the contractor/GC you are wanting to work with, how do you both set expectations of what will be done and ...

My worst loss was $100,000 trading foreign exchange. I made $100,000 one year then lost $200,000 the next.

My worst real estate deal I lost about $25,000 on. Paid too much, rented to dirt bag tenant for way...