New to real estate and looking for my first rental. Have been using the rental calculator on every potential property I find in Waukesha, Wisconsin and surrounding towns. Every single property is a bust! Negative cash...

Just curious what some of you syndicators plan to do where you have been buying 3, 4, 5  cap "value add" deals. If rates move against you, what is the plan? I have no dog in the fight but aside from the 100% bonus dep...

About to close on a refi of our personal property. Saving $250/mo plus getting about $12k cash back in closing. Current vehicle payment is $398/mo with about 9000 left to pay (2.5% interest rate).Initial thought is go...

Irvine , CA Thursday, January 07, 2016 According to a new study of companies leaving California during the last eight years, the state's business climate will worsen because of a multitude of proposed tax hikes and ne...

Hi BP - my partner and I have a LLC set up. Our attorney and CPA said that we will have to file for taxes as a partnership but I have been reading up that taxes are pass through? We are a 50-50 partnership with the op...

I own a couple of empty lake lots in my self-directed Roth IRA. Am I allowed to mow the lawn on them? Or maybe doing a little removing of brush by hand? Thank you, Bruce

Read an interesting article recently about viewing paying PMI and viewing it as an interest expense on a diminishing principal amount (as you make monthly mortgage payments and pay down principal and your PMI s...

Hi,  I currently own 2 four-plex units in my market that have appreciated but aren't cash flowing very well.  They would sell for about 475K each.  I'd like to sell one of these units(possibly both) and buy somewhere ...

I would think this is wrong, but who knows. The WSJ is usually fairly solid, but they did turn the comments off on this article:https://www.wsj.com/articles/despite-stay-at-home-order-seattles-real-estate-market-conti...

Dear landlords,
I recently read the post about AirBNB arbitrage (renting someone's place and listing it on Airbnb). But as a Landlord, would you rent to someone who will list on Airbnb? Why or Why Not? What will it t...