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B.S.!!!! It is easy to buy at the courthouse steps , just show up with cashiers checks and raise your hand!
However, it is also very easy to lose your shirt. I attend and buy at my Texas county foreclosure auctio...
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I've been listening to CNBC this morning and they have been releasing some of the plan to bailout homeowners.
It was just released an hour and half ago so the details are few and far between at this point but here ar...
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I know it's a mixed bag hiring off Craigslist. Still, I am trying to hedge my bets regarding certificates of liability insurance for a more skilled but small job. I keep hearing and reading, make sure they have insura...
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If there was one feature of note investing you wish there was more information readily available on, what would it be?
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I currently owe $265k and was curious to see how much other investors owe. This is spread out between six properties.
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Is there a way to defer some rental income into some kind of retirement account when retired?
Lets say someone was able to live entirely off savings for a year, could they somehow put their rental income into a defer...
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I'm haunted by Ben L.'s comment "Don't be a retail investor!" in the podcast on rental properties. This is also common advice in real estate investment books. Always buy at a discount, or, as Warren Buffett says, with...
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I have been researching real estate cycles and found real estate economist Homer Hoyt theory of 18 year real estate cycle in the 1930's. In the early 90's economist Fred E. Foldvary predicted the real estate crash in ...
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Hello BP community,My family is evaluating a cash-flow market to get into - and we are close to finalizing on Detroit for various reasons (entry point, >1% RTP, strategic investments in parts of the city, ...)Based...
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Denver hopes to require Landlords to obtain a license and register their rentals. They started doing this in 2019 with vacation homes and now want to do it for all rentals. Why? It's under the guise of protecting the ...