Recently bought a rental that I am living in and will start to renting it out early next year. I’ve done my calculations and have seen that I will be breaking even with this investment day one. On a rental that’s not ...

When I find a promising multi-unit rental property, I usually assume that 50% of the gross rents is what I'll have after operating expenses to pay my mortgage. The listing sheets have a breakdown of the operating expe...

We are just starting out in our buy and hold strategy, and I specifically told my agent that we want to spend around 40k, and are interested in short sales, foreclosures, etc. She showed up for our first meeting with...

Does anyone use Stessa for collection of monthly rental income? What program do you use for rent collection? (automatic late fee generated program)

Hello Everyone,I am interested in using a SBA loan to purchase a mixed-used building to start my own property management company.  The only problem I see is that although I work as a Asset Manager, I am young and not ...

Hello, i just passed my state license exam and am signing on with an agency later this week. Trying to figure out what i need to hit the ground running so that it's a successful business and not just an extra payche...

Hi folks.  New to the site and new to real estate investing (although I just finished with The Book on Rental Property Investing).My uncle (age 57) and I (age 48) want to start investing in residential single-family r...

Hi All,

I've been in real estate for 10 years. My first 6 years were in residential and the last 4 have been in commercial. I've been lucky to do better then the average agent on both sides of the field and h...

To Fellow Investors,

At what point in your business did you or would you choose to add part or full-time staff instead of using independent contractors?

What position did you or would you hire first?

Thanks for you...

Technical professional working full-time ready to return to real estate investing. Have done a couple re-habs in the past, interested in the same as well as rental property. Have substantial IRA assets to work with, w...