How do you measure your investment results?  Do you measure them against other investors?  Or do you use an absolute number for yourself e.g. % return?So far investors I have talked to do not care what other people ar...

When borrowing a smaller amount from family, say 25k, for a downpayment, is it at all common to do a 30-year ammortizing loan? If so, what rate? Is 7.5% 30 year ammortizing reasonable? I want it to be attractive to th...

Hi, I'm Kevin and have listing (loan) on another site,( didn't know about this one) and looking for private money lender, a guy name Clyde Lewis said he would make loan at 5%. Application was very generic and seemed m...

I have a 3 bedroom rental that has max occupancy of 6 people. I am renting it starting Dec 1 for $850 to a husband/wife. They came looking at it with her mother and we think they are going to eventually ask to move...

I've been reading a lot of books and blogs on real estate investing as well as listening to the BP podcasts. I'm amazed at how much I keep learning. As you look back at your real estate investing journey, what do you ...

Can anyone recommend a title company in the DC metro area that handles Subject To or Seller Financing transactions? I recently came across Pace Morby's video on the "subject to" real estate deals, and I am interested ...

I started investing back in the bottom of the recession or, as I like to call it, the Great Turkey Shoot of 2010. I was snagging some pretty incredible deals back then, but the jewel of them all was a beautiful brick ...

We listed our new duplex on Zillow and had over 20 folks request to schedule a tour.  I responded to all immediately (email and/or phone) and probably 15 didn't respond at all and 3 no-shows after scheduling a time.  ...

Just read a thread where a landlord said that his instruction to his tenant screening company was to automatically disqualify anyone with a felony.

HUD has this guideline in public housing. In some cases it...

The tenant broke the lease and moved out and left a mess
I sent the message that the secutity deposit is not enough to cover the expenses after the tenant moved out to the last known address of the tenant (which is m...