All,I recently purchase and rented 3 properties. in all 3 cases I tenant left after some time and I had to turn water in my name... when bill came was outrageous: $1000-$3000 each bill. Almost $6000 in total. In all 3...

Some days i wake up and have to encourage myself in my goal; I must admit i have lost some of the omph' but i am continuing to plug away to accomplish this goal. (some days every body around is so negative its hard no...

For the longest time people have predicting inflation, now we are at 6.8% in November after I thing 6.2% in October. The FED said this is going to be short term, but I have a feeling it's going to stay with us and lea...

First off I'll start with my disclaimer:

This is MY version of a "Do it yourself" yellow letter. I know there are other ways to do it and companies that you can pay that will d...

I went to the 2 day Life Styles Unlimited class this past weekend with the goal of learning and finding a multi-family mentor to begin investing with. Like a typical sales funnel I quickly learned it was a brief over...

I'm a new landlord, haven't even collected first rent from tenants yet on a 3 unit in a city of about 100k population. Neighborhood is rough in an ethnically diverse section, but property price and rents seemed good. ...

While I've learned a ton about investing over the past year or so, I feel like I'm seriously lacking in the area of pre-construction deals. I've got a few questions about finding good pre-construction deals.

1) Wher...

Wondering if anyone has any thoughts about the recent interview by Meredith Whitney, about the only Wall Street analysts worth anything, on CNBC.

She talked about Detroit bankruptcy saying more is coming. She succes...

Hey BP,

I just finished with having a pretty neat conversation with my mentor. He owns a decent size real estated company. They invest in mutli-family markets around the U.S. And owns a little over 1700 units.

How...

Would anyone like to explain to me some of the benefits\drawbacks of both of these types of investments? It seems to me that when starting out, REI seems to require far more money than investment in stocks.

I read t...