Just wondering if there are any disadvantages to remove my taxes & insurance from my escrow?

Main reason I ask is that I have one property paid off, so I pay my T&I myself, and another one with a mortgage. ...

Hello I’m new to the forum. I want to start get into real estate but I have $200,000 in student loan debt. It’s hard to keep up the payments without working 2 jobs. I want to be able to quit working and work on real e...

Hi everyone!  I'm a new landlord (lady?)...just purchased a duplex and closing on a fourplex on Thursday. My question is, why is the insurance so darn expensive? My agent said they are required to insure properties at...

We're moving to the Austin area soon and we're trying to figure out whether or not to buy or rent and if we buy, what kind of house we should get. I've tried to ask this in a general way, but for anyone who knows the ...

Have you ever invested in an area that went bad? Major employers leaving town, big layoffs, etc.What happened to your rental properties? How did you react? Were you able to stay profitable? What is your advice to some...

Hi guys,Relative newbie here. I'm in the middle of purchasing a multi-family home. We're getting close to setting a closing date. I was on the phone with our mortgage originator, and we discussed the recent interest r...

Hello,I'm looking into Buy-and-Hold but am not sure if I've got the finances to do it. I'm self-employed and pretty low earner (but a pretty frugal person), so I don't have a lot of excess cash flow. However, what I d...

I'm in discussions to buy a second home/investment property in Vermont. My lender just called me quite flustered to say that he has learned that no one is doing the traditional 10% down loan for second homes, which is...

Hey everyone, I finally decided to make a post after months of following BP. I need some real life advice, I want to house hack but I want to build a duplex. I have been digesting all things Real Estate so right now I...

I'm not sure if this is a legit term but I've thought about this before and then I ran the numbers and was pretty excited to see what I came up with. Perhaps many of you already know about this and I'm just behind the...