Here's my current situation...we have a home that we lived in for over a decade. It's worth $255k and we owe $140k. Monthly mortgage (escrow included) is $1188. Great interest rate of 3.25% and it's in a wonderful are...

Background:  Late 30s, married with two young kids (4 and 2).  My husband and I both have solid W2 incomes (both remote).  We live in small town Arkansas with a very low cost of living.  No plans to move as this is wh...

There has been a lot of talk recently about short term rentals in mountain vacation towns (thanks @Avery Carl - but really your episode was awesome) but are there a lot of you who invest in beach towns? We own two bea...

Hello everyone,After a couple of weeks of listening to the amazing podcasts they have here at BP, I've finally decided to join. I'm just starting out in my RE journey, mostly been absorbing as much knowledge as I can ...

New investor here. My first property was a multi-family in Iowa. I got it for dirt cheap, and now I see why. The former owner (LLC) was rather lacking on upkeep of the units. And now after a year, the utilities are ea...

So I was advertising my mothers upstairs appartment out of Buffalo New York, ( The appartment is not section 8 approved) this is my first time renting out a space and I assumed you had to be approved to take section 8...

One of my tenant, Her rent is due on the 1st and 6 out of 12 month pays rent late. Usually by the 2 Nd and third ,one time on the 12th after I told her if she doesn’t pay me on time and not repond ding my text I will ...

Is there a filter or reporting system to remove spammers in forums?I'm noticing real estate agents and some others are spamming every post and it's really ruining the the quality of the discussion. Every question or d...

Hi Everyone,

So after countless hours of listening to podcasts, surfing these forums learning from you all, and reading tons of articles/books I am super pumped to finally be closing on my first property in abou...

Hello guys,
This is my first time posting in this forum even though I've been following the site for about 2 years now. I'm living in the Silicon Valley and about to graduate college with an upcoming job as a Financi...