It sounds like any other Self Directed  IRA.What's different?Google led me to an Entrust website.  Any other good information sources you'd like to suggest?Alan

Hi BP,I realize again the importance of avoiding over-leveraging especially in this unforeseen recession crisis. I thought I would never leverage more than I can handle (pay them all back) in the worst situation, but ...

I’m making this story as short as possible, so....The lawyer had no idea what wholesaling was. So I explained it to him, then he didn’t understand why the contract would have contingency’s allowing the wholesaler to b...

I have been making monthly payments on my parents' mortgage loan to help them out (payments are made via transfers from my bank account). I am just about to close on a house and obtain a mortgage for myself, and the u...

I can use some advice on this one... I took over an existing tenant who frequently asks for repairs, or has complaints about the property. The property is a nice, well maintained property in a nice part of town. Some ...

In many of the BP podcasts, articles, and blogs, the idea comes up frequently that people who really have major issues during donwturns or in RE investing in general are people who buy wrong (pretty clear I think), or...

So this week I had someone ask me , "How do we define a Motivated Seller?"  She thought it was anyone who wants to sell a house and it has not sold yet.For me I see a Motivated Seller as someone who I can help in a Wi...

What is your definition of Commercial Real Estate? I know many on BP consider Multi Family to be commercial R.E. Others believe that it's any real estate used for "business" purposes, still others consider any propert...

Has anyone found a good way to create a specific geographic region and get automatic updates on changes to inventory. Zillow has "draw a custom region" which is essentially what I am looking for but they are not the m...

How could a non real estate business owner utilize a defined benefit plan (pension plan) to acquire real estate or deal in HML? Is this pushing the IRS limits?Set up a checking account in the DBP name, disburse the fu...