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I'm doing some research into starting a hard money lending business in California. The loans would be first trust deeds on non-owner occupied residential property (lending to RE investors) and the business en...

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I just opened escrow on my first property! It's a 3 unit, single building home and I am super excited about it. It's an old 1910 California craftsman style home with 2700 sqft in a historic nei...

I have a question... I'm an out of state investor and I find properties through the MLS and Loopnet.  Thus, I ask my agents to go out and take a video walkthrough of the property so I can decide on whether to make an ...

Hi all.  I have a deal I'm I have listed with the agent that brought it to me.  Originally listed as a rather heavy rehab deal.  I got the job done just a little over budget and the hold was longer than expected but o...

My property in MD is turning over to a new tenant. My PM sent me a quote that gave me a small heart attack. Upon further inspection, I quickly recognized that the times they were allocating for various tasks were gros...

I am currently listing a place for rent. I have this couple come over and explain to my wife prior and myself at the showing how their current place is bad and that the ceiling caved in twice. They go on with some oth...

Is anyone able to do their own title search to see if there are any liens on a property or do you just contact a title company?

I posted on another LL and would like to get y'alls thoughts on the situation:I'm on a merry-go with a POS tenant. I terminated contract with PM. All tenants were by PM notified that I would be self-managing beginning...

Dear BP,     I inherited a PM when I bought my turnkey rental last year. Since the beginning, there was not any conversation or update initiated by the PM and I always had to track him down after I noticed an issue. M...

Is there a difference between the two?

If the loan terms were the same, would you be more likely to work with a private lender or a hard money lender?

Hard money lenders use private money, so to my mind they are the...