Hello. I am working on getting into large multifamily investing and I was told that I need to make a bio. Since I am still in the early stages of investing, i am not sure what goes into the bio. Does anyone have recom...

I am recently back from a family trip to Orlando. On this trip I noticed what appeared to be numerous single family home listings in the $50K range with market rents that appear in the $800/mo range... for about 20% ...

I bought an investment property in Kansas City (Independence). It came with a tenant. I am currently situated overseas and cannot get back to the USA until April 2014 (earliest). The property manager is aware that I a...

A n00b contacted me about the numerous "great deals" he was seeing FSBOs offering on their condos throughout Florida.  As a resident of the Hurricane Sunshine State, I can tell you it's Fool's Gold.  The assessments. ...

My wife and I own 14 short term rentals in Carolina Beach, NC, and we also co-own a property management company that manages another 54 listings.  We’ve tried to vertically integrate and we just signed on our own line...

Hello - I have finally acquired my first rental property (a duplex) and I plan to get my feet wet and manage myself to not only learn but save money since property management doesn't pencil at this point.One renter se...

Quick question regarding DTI for a Fannie loan. As I understand that new rental income (less then 2 years) is calculated as:Gross rent * 75% - DITI = income added What I don't know is whether or not the DITI still cou...

I thought I'd share another cool milestone for BiggerPockets -- a syndication relationship with Money Magazine (Time Inc).  Our first article came out yesterday -- The Top 5 Ways to Make More Money on Your Rental Prop...

Every calculator has stuff that seems irrelevant or is not true to the situation.  My purchase price was over 20 years ago, I do not remember closing costs, have refinanced twice at least and I have been renting it fo...

I am wondering what methods you guys use for assessing the strength of a communities rental market. Are you using STDB.com or Esri? Any insight would be great, as I have had some difficulty assessing how easily I woul...