Need some help on what options I have with this 2nd note in California. The borrower was in CH13 bankruptcy. My note was crammed down because the house was so far underwater. Throughout the bankruptcy plan, they paid ...

Hello Smart BP Folks -I am reading one of my favorite economist bloggers - Bll McBride at Calculated Risk - and I see an interesting article about rents and renters. I'm curious to see if anyone has some input on thes...

Hello everyone!I'm Olen and excited to learn more about real estate.  I currently work as a firefighter and own 1 rental property (3/2).  At work it is often for an older person to die and to be living alone with the ...

Just saw this article and thought I would share with the community. Where real estate agents make money so the money flows.The Best Place to Be a Real Estate Agent Daily Real Estate News | Wednesday, Febru...

So I am doing a flip in Laurelton, Queens and had issues from a general contractor doing shoddy work, and a plumber disappearing with uncompleted work and stealing from us (plumbing materials put on our account, not c...

I recently wrote about 2 Amendments to my Purchase and Sale Agreement that made me $65,000 on a recent Wholesale deal.  This post is about 2 Escrow Clauses that made me that same $65,000.  FACTS: SFR, off market, FSB...

As it turns out, property management puts you at risk like anything else does.  Hard lesson learned.  We just found out 2 days ago that the owner of our property management company has been embezzeling all funds from ...

Goodevening from NJ, 
I have a tenant in my 3 family Investment property/house that just got a dog without informing or asking me and has a no pet allowed written clearly in the lease. I came to know of it when my ne...

When you are in the note space, you can never see everything. This is an excellent example if why Title Insurance is important on an asset. I am doing due diligence on an asset that has a six figure price tag to it. T...

A 6-Unit property just purchased and the rents are low but the tenants are good. Did not want to raise rents but now that I'm trying to refinance the lender says it doesn't "Cash Flow". Would you raise the rents or sh...