Hi BP Nation!My name is Daniel, I'm 32 living in Des Moines, IA. I am married with 3 boys (4,2,and a newborn). I have been in the shadows for nearly a year now, figured it was time to get my first post out of the way....

Hi,From about 18 to 25 years old, I used my spare time to completely renovated an old loghouse and today I live in it (no mortgage or rent). My career focus has always been IT and I have made a decent living to be con...

My understanding is R-X designation indicates residential where X is the number of dwelling units per acre allowed.I fully understand why a second dwelling unit could not be created on this R-1 zoned lot of about .6 a...

Hello BP community.
I am a new investor and am planning on purchasing my first brrrr property in the Baltimore area. Hoping for a multi family but am open to single family. I work as a site supervisor for a general c...

What sites and/or screening criteria/requirements/rules do you have and used that’s helped you screened “good” tenants?

Hello, BP.  I've been on the site for about a year, but have really only been here for educational purposes.  For the past 8 months or so, I've been working on getting a plan together and getting to a place where I fe...

I purchased my property August 2013. Since then it's been gutted and renovated to a vanilla shell. It has been available for lease for nearly 2 years and I still don't have a tenant. I've gone through 3 real estate ag...

Dear BP family,Often times, we hear low grade, mid-grade, high-grade construction materials. I was wondering, are these definitions standardized and if yes what exactly do they mean?Thank you all in advance, Eli M

hi, what can a tax sale investor do to protect themselves from losing property to bankruptcies? thanks.

This place is awesome. I found it a couple years ago, but I guess I just was not ready for it. I am back now and ready. I will be getting married on 11-1-13, so just a couple days. My credit is better than it was ...