Hello BP community, I wonder how many of you decide to put carpeting down the hall ways to the bed rooms for rental property? I have read that ceramic tile is the most durable option, It can last up to 75 years. Meanw...

Hello BP world ! I am currently working on my second deal. My first property is cash flowing nice and learned a lot from it but that’s a story for another time. I currently have a single family house under contract fr...

I was listening to the Money Podcast, Finance-Friday edition earlier this week. @ScottTrench mentioned having adequate amounts in reserve for a rental property. I close on my first property on Wednesday the 17th. The ...

Those that have been doing this a while, how do you feel about the current environment?

There’s a flood of new people (including me) coming into the market and from talking to people in this for a while and reading, ...

So I purchased a new duplex which is very exciting and now I’m a landlord. I took over a letter introducing myself to my renters and one of the tenants is perfectly fine but the other one says she can’t afford that mu...

Don't walk away....run away. If you are thinking of doing business with these guys and need some advice, pm me for the details of our 6 month fiasco. These guys are smooth/fast talkers. I don't want to talk badly abou...

Hello, People of BP!I want to know how those of you who are out of state investors do it. Do you actually travel/drive/fly to do a walkthrough on the property before you make an offer? I feel like that lapse in time c...

In case my fellow St. Louis investors haven't already seen this...http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politi...

I recently read on Bigger Pockets a post on Capital expenditures that included some generic numbers.  http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/10/13/real-estate-capex-estimate-capital-expenditures/The numbers did ...