I'm a tad pole when it comes to real estate investing. Any advice for getting started before I officially leave the military?

If you are doing a 1031 Exchange, do you notify the seller that you are paying cash as part of a 1031 when you put in an offer? Does this put you at an advantage because sellers like cash and don't have to worry about...

For the first time in my life I have decided to do a lease option. I am the seller, and I am using a Realtor who has found me a suitable tenant-buyer. All parties have agreed upon an option deposit of $3,000. T...

I'll admit now that I am an infiltrator to this forum. I'm not a property owner or landlord. I am a potential tenant trying to figure out what makes you guys tick. (What I have discovered so far is that you love mo...

Here are the facts:
In July or August of 2019 we were selling one of our most expensive properties at the time for $330,000.  We got a couple who wanted to buy the property but couldn't qualify for the loan at that t...

We're doing some planning for next year to reduce taxes and I was hoping some of our more astute investors could give me some ideas about generating large depreciation expenses to reduce passive income.  The following...

So our first property is with the PM and I am not thrilled with the description his team came up with. There are typos, which he says don't matter. He eventually fixed one of them. Without saying so much, he says it d...

Opinions please. High end appliances, Yes or No?I'm working on a Key West style remodel located one house from the Intracoastal Waterway, 6 blocks from the ocean in Florida.  The innards were shot when we bought it at...

My brother is considering house hacking in Fayetteville, so I was looking causally through realtor.com, and the market looks very odd to me. There are a ton of multifamily properties for sale, and most of them at very...

Hi, all-- Before my fiancé, @Raymond Northcutt, and I had the notion to get into real estate, we were both renting. I was fortunate enough to have a landlord that gave me my entire deposit back on the spot-- no issues...