A little background first.  In 2011-2012 purchased with 20% down loans 10 condos in sunny San Diego.  Averaging about $48,000.00 cash flow.  Life was good.  Then I calculated my return on Equity and noticed San Diego ...

Just saw a story on 60 minutes about several very large banks manufacturing ownership documents. All related to mortgage forclosures in the past several years. It appears they can not come up with the real title of ow...

I know an owner (very old school) who is ready to retire and liquidate his portfolio.  He has a few buildings in DC valued at over $1M .  He has already started to sell off some of his properties.  He does not employ ...

For those of you that buy and hold in college towns do you see this fall as...A. The same old housing market, all the students will be back. Sunshine and rainbows for everyoneB. Buying opportunity. This is the Thursda...

So Dec. 2015 I started my real estate adventure. I'm a huge numbers guy so I love my spreadsheets and planning my financial future. Thus based on a 20% down per property mindset, I tried to gauge what I could realisti...

One of the many calls that I had today.  I am using Michael Quarles advice about getting the seller to give me their minimum.  I have had success and failure with this.  Here is the part of a phone call that I had tod...

I am looking for a reliable and inexpensive service that allows tenants to have rent automatically paid directly from their bank account monthly. Does anyone use a service like that? I've had Intuit recommended but it...

Hi folks - I wanted the BP community opinion on an off-topic finance related thought.It seems to me like a ton of millennials, and more of whatever the next generation is called, are graduating college with massive st...

I'm looking to start buying turnkey rentals in the next few months and I came across Martel turnkey. They seem legit, but I am hoping to get feedback from others who have purchased properties from them in the past. Wh...

My question is… Do people promote buying rentals due to some sort of  personal benefit/conflict of interest?From a birds eye view and in a perfect world people would buy a property and their tenants would pay for it. ...