Good morning everyone!My name is Dylan and I reside in northern N.J. (the rural part of NJ if you can believe it). I'm a financial planner by profession, I deal largely with company and state retirement plans and assi...

Hi BP. Regarding retired applicants, do you still have to keep with the same qualifications? Do you keep with the 3x income?  I have an applicant that only has social security coming in and said they recently sold the...

Hi guys, I am thinking of making my first offer on a property in the KC area.Here are the numbers:Sale Price: 85000Down Payment: 17000Closing: 2000Rent: 950Insurance: 595Taxes: 857Vacancy: 29 (3%)Property Management: ...

Hello BiggerPockets,My name is Cameron Taylor, and I am a freshman at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am new to Real Estate investing, but I know this is a field I am highly interested in after college. To give ...

I'm in contract to buy a quad in Cleveland. It's my first property in the area. I know I'm on the hook for water & sewer. I'm wondering what I should budget for that expense. So, for those of you who own small mul...

Good afternoon,I'm new to BP and getting acclimated to the site and the resources available to me.  I'm doing the BP 90 Day Challenge and I'm looking for some advice.  I'm using the Rental Property Calculator daily to...

Hello, I am just starting my real estate journey, but I came across a townhome I really enjoyed/ have been doing research on it for the past couple of days. To me, it looks like a good first starter cash flow property...

Hey all,So I am 27 years old and trying to get started in real estate investing. I currently live in Portland, OR which is a pretty tough market right now. The good news is my job allows me to work from anywhere in th...

So I find that when I evaluate properties according to the BiggerPockets method, including CapEx monthly, including 5% of gross rents for repairs and maintanence, including 10% for property managers, etc, NO property ...

Hello BP.  I am looking into section 8 in Illinois in Will county (Joliet).  As I was looking up the HUD advertised rates I have noticed in 2016 through 2018 the amount has been dropping.  (Example 2 bed rents in 2016...