I'm nearing the end of real estate school and will be taking my state exam in mid-July. I've been reading @Scott Trench's book, Set for Life, and I'm bought into the concepts. The problem I'm having is... figuring out...

We are about to close on our first place and our realtor with keller williams is using their in house title company. The house cost 40k but our closing costs he said would be 5k, we are in eastern PA. My first thou...

Hello.  Newbie here.  I'm looking at the foreclosure list in San Antonio for next month to scout for deals.  I found a property where the owner bought by signing two notes at closing: a $95K first lien mortgage and a ...

So I thought it would be cool to document my goal of buying 150 flip houses this and documenting my progress here for the BP community.

My reason for doing this is to help educate and encourage others, k...

We have a tenant that pays by money order every month, but when she mailed this month's rent it never arrived. She sends it with a tracking number since it's a money order, and we can see that it actually IS lost in t...

Hello fellow investors!  I began a post a few months ago in regards to a new construction project I will be starting soon and after all the great input I thought it would be nice to start a journal in order to help ne...

Hi all - first post here, and I'm hoping for some honest feedback on an investment/personal use property at a condotel resort in Maui.  Cut me some slack, as I'm just now learning some of the investment terms used on ...

Hello all, I attended one of the saturday events for Robyn Thompson's road to success in rehabbing for big checks.. I enjoyed the class was a long 8 hours, but i got a lot of really useful info out of the class that c...

I recently found out about a real estate investing mentor group called Lifestyles Unlimited based in Texas and decided to do some research on it. I came across a thread on this forum about the company from 2008 and ve...

My girlfriend and I are trying to buy a 4 family home in Rhode Island. We want to live in a unit and rent the other three units (House hacking). My girlfriend seems to not understand why we need to house hack opposed ...