According to this article, http://www.examiner.com/article/the-fico-credit-score-and-strategic-default, researchers have found distinct character traits that identify potential strategic defaulters. They say strategi...

Commercial investors, for those of you looking for niches in which to invest, here's a blog I wrote on Medical Office Space. Ed O. Will Barnard you asked me to let you know when I wrote this. http://www.biggerpockets....

I'd be curious to hear what everyone's experience or thoughts are on the various contractor services / bid programs offered by all the big box stores. Which one do you use, which do you prefer, and what about the spec...

Hello BP!!  We are in escrow for a college rental in Orange County. I have the standard lease agreement, and wanted to know what other college rental investors include in the lease agreement to protect themselves and ...

I currently have some cash (my army) that I am building up for a down payment on an investment property sitting in a Barclays 1.20% APY savings account (Earnings peanuts). Waiting for that perfect moment to pounce a o...

How do you analyze and compare different multi family properties to invest in?

I kind of understand the gist of it as far as cash flow, cash-on-cash return,cap rates, return on investment, GRMs for multi-family. But ...

This is a question that I run into a lot. How do I find money to start Investing on my own, especially when starting from poverty?The only ways that I've seen to accumulate hundreds of thousands of dollars in a short ...

I've always had an interest in real estate but never took it too serious and i just felt with the economy slowly recovering it wouldn't be a good idea to even waste my time in that area to dabble with RE investments l...

my friend and I are thinking of partnering up on buying a turnkey sfh. After all expenses,  taxes, cap ex, pm, etc. the deals we are seeing would be cash flowing around 200-300/month. Split 50/50 would be about $100-1...

As a new investor who may not want to start with creating an LLC right away, what are other methods that one can do to protect themselves if a lawsuit were to occur?