My wife and I both work and have no kids. We live in Seattle, Washington, where the market is really hot right now. We started looking for our own place back in October, but have yet to land anything. We've put in som...

It's been five months or so since I've joined this website and have been relatively absent from the forums, not because I decided REI wasn't for me, but rather because I have been busy doing deals! To set the stage, h...

Excerpt from a post I made on the stock investing forum "The Motley Fool." The audience is stock investors who are equally passionate and successful in stocks as the BP community is in REI. Many of them think going al...

Two of our rentals have taken on water and our personal home might too.

I was thinking about going over there as soon as the water recedes under slab and start shop vacuuming, ripping out baseboards/door trim and she...

We have been reading consistent posts for four years now regarding "it's a bad time to start", "the recession is near", "I can't find good deals", "the market stinks", and similar posts.  I suspect that we need to und...

My goal is to become a Multi-Family Syndicator in as short a timeline as possible. By "short timeline", I simply mean the quickest path - I understand this is a complex industry where an established track record is a ...

For landlords out there who don't manage themselves, which is better: Quickbooks or Quicken Rental Property Manager?Which gives you the better reports, better data? I hear Quickbooks has a steep learning curve and is ...

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Advice Needed
TLDR - Spend an additional $30k now to upgrade the sewer system on-site while the contractor is already mobilized or go with a sewer injection pump which is likely a viable solution the will last for ye...

I am looking for information about buying houses at auctions. I have found a couple that look like they might be good buys if I can get them for the right price. Some of my questions include title searches ( how and w...