Hello! My wife and I are under contract on a second home, and we plan to rent our current house out.  We are excited to start this journey.  We plan on managing the rental ourselves. I am curious if we should start an...

"After studying over 500 millionaires, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Charles M. Schwab, journalist and author Napoleon Hill found that they shared a single quality: Decisiveness," writes Kathleen Elkins o...

Currently living in California. Young but eager to learn. I have several questions. Assume you've found a property in another state, a turn-key property. It's listed as $75,000. I come up with a downpayment of $15,000...

I have a condo and there was water leak in the Unit below my Condo, The neighbor called their Plumbers and mentioned that there might be potential water overflow from my Unit in the report. Two weeks later I received ...

Hey all,So I'm in a downstairs condo unit and my upstairs neighbor leaked into our unit, causing a good amount of water damage. We knew something wasn't right because we heard dripping late at night a couple weeks ago...

I am a new landlord, and just had my tenant tell me she fell and broke her elbow while moving furniture back into a room after removing it for a carpet install (storm damaged roof and sprung a leak doing some damage t...

Hello!My name is Jonathan Atkins. I am looking to buy my first home and hold out in the Colorado Springs area. I have used the BiggerPockets rental property calculator however there are some questions I have about F...

Hello BP Community,I am 24 years old living in Colorado Springs, and just bought my first property last year. Considering I make about 40k a year I am shocked I was able to even qualify for a home at all! I purchased ...

  I have watched the videos and read the books. We have decided to scale up. One constant that I keep hearing is build a good team. I am listening and I am working on it. I know who my Agent is and who my property man...

To buy and hold investors in natural disaster zones - such as hurricanes impacting Houston TX or panhandle of Florida (Pensacola was hit this year by Hurricane Sandy), how do you account for this risk in your investin...