An associate says he added a partner into his LLC because she had a nearly perfect credit score, and became guaranteer on business loans and commercial real estate, effectively making it super easy for him to achie...

Just curious if someone could explain to me how the 20% tax credit works for an old building. My husband and I are looking to invest in a 100 year old 2-story building in the downtown area of our small town. The buil...

Hey BP,I'm looking to update my "elevator pitch" for REIA Network Meetings and I'm in need for a couple ideas if you don't mind helping me out.I'm no slick city speaker and I'm a way better email speaker, so here's my...

Hello,According to NOLO's Tax Deduction Guide, the waters are somewhat murky when determining whether a rental property owner is a "business" or "investor."  I own one out-of-state single family residence that has ten...

I have been using an eviction company in 2016. They seem to be too busy to get my evictions done in a timely manner, and have a hard time knowing what the results were once filed. I want to start doing evictions on my...

Again, without writing a novel explaining the details and reasoning behind this (should be obvious to the experts anyways) - I want to locate properties owned by distressed sellers.

Maybe they're not even selling eit...

Happy New Year BP community.I just got an email from Zillow rental manager saying that starting in Feb if I have > 1 rental listing I have to pay $9.99 per week for each listing.  This is for the Raleigh NC area.An...

In another thread, @Bill Gulley and I had a brief discussion on underwriting guidelines. Rather than take that thread off topic, I created this one to hopefully further the discussion. The main contention was whether ...

Regarding small scale rental properties or I believe "buy and hold" is the term used around here (sorry, I'm new to all this).I notice that a lot of investors mortgage properties for 10, 20, even 30 years - whatever i...

Anyone ever have a great deal (verbal) going with a seller and have the seller consult their attorney about the upcoming transaction and have the attorney steal the deal? I did and it isnt a good feeling. Its what I w...