Hello!  My name is Jennifer Clancy and this is my newbie story.  My husband and I became accidental landlords in August 2013, we had the opportunity to live in Australia and we took it.  We did not want to pay a mortg...

Live in Des Moines, Iowa and recently found a tenant with an extra dog on the property.  Inherited tenants with 3 dogs already on the lease.  We served a 7 day notice of breach of lease requesting the dog be removed. ...

What a great site this is! I thank my wonderful accountant and CPA for turning me on to BP. I am a beyond full time ;0) Realtor in the San Francisco Bay Area and a very proud native to the Peninsula...born and rais...

Hi BP,This is a long overdue intro post. I'm Ryan and I'm a victim of recency bias. See the thing is we all either got slaughtered personally or had friends/family get slaughtered in 2009 when that once in every ~70-y...

I had heard about tenants like this, but these are the first ones of my own. The Constant Complaint tenants. I just sat down to make a list of the many complaints they have expressed to me in the past year of their te...

We spend a lot of time at the end of each year celebrating our successes in REI and planning for an even better year next year, but sometimes we forget to take stock of our worst move of last year. Understanding what ...

Greetings BP'ers. 
I'd like to get some opinions on this, to see what other landlords might do in this situation/current environment etc. 
I have a:
Self-managed, out-of-state, fully paid off rental. 
Area Market ...

When I  became a member on this site, I was looking for that key ingredient that allowed many of the investors to become landlords overnight.I researched every strategy, every problem that could possibly come up and c...

Hey everyone,
Ive been a member here since about 2008 and am just now finally getting around to making my first post. I'm a police officer in South Florida and things have gone from bad to worse for us financially. Th...

Hello all, Just bought a condo last year as a personal residence in Chino Hills, CA.  I stumbled across some readings about HELOC's and how it helps pay the home mortgage down faster and paying less intrest.  On top o...