I quit my job today to pursue real estate investing full time, so I am very serious. I have been casing 5 properties in my area that I know I can get for the taxes or dirt cheap. My goal is to purchase the two best on...

I am considering a self directed IRA. Has anyone worked with BuyPD, Am Estate and Trust and Accuplan? I also talked to IRA Financial Group in NY but they do not work as custodians'. Is a custodian required?

Hi Everyone,I have been interested in real estate investing for a couple years, but have decided NOT to pursue buying rental homes at this time.  I have three young kids and decided it would be easier to invest in sto...

So I have a rather tricky situation that I need to resolve at a rental condo.  I own one of the units out of a total of eight in the building.There is a copper drain pipe leak inside the common wall between my unit an...

Hello BP,I currently have a verbal agreement to purchase a home for 90k. I met with the children over the weekend who inherited the property from mom. The house has already gone through probate and they are ready to s...

My Drawing of my outsourcing of short sale transactions

I know I didn't invent this stuff, but I wanted to organize my process. Here's how it works.

I train Realtors / Agents to bring me their potential short sale ...

The other day I was having a discussion with some associates about the upcoming Presidential Election, and one of them brought up the Democratic Candidate Andrew Young and his Universal Basic Income Plan called "The F...

I've read this article by Sergio Altomare - How to Calculate Cap Rate (& Where Many People Get It Wrong) several times and there is something that just doesn't make sense to me. These basic formulas do make sense:...

You owe it to yourself to check this out and see if the concept matches your beliefs.

A Dell, then Google executive has started this movement to get rid of corruption in DC. His plan is to turn t...

When you're buying a house using an agent, and the purchase contract has an inspection contingency period, and some fairly sizable issues arise during the inspection, does your agent: a) try to convince you these item...