So, I had thought I had found the perfect house to flip. Decent neighborhood, solid structure, very dated, lots of potential. Made an offer with an escalation clause it because I really wanted this one. Even with goin...

Hi BP,just for knowledge sake:wandering what your thoughts are on properties that are negotiated to just below asking price. with no repairs needed. rent ready.so say there is a property that is worth 100K, needs no r...

Hi! My sisters and I are forming a partnership and buying rental properties. We want to find some private investors to finance the down payments, in the form of loaning money to us at an annual 10% or so rate. How do ...

I'm curious to hear your opinions on 15 vs. 30 yr loans.  Which do you prefer and why?  Obviously cashflow is less on a 15 year loan in the short term, but you save so much on interest...can it be justified?

So, I looked a four "creative" listings lately and am becoming more and more irritated at the audacity of some of these listing agents...I mean really, there are guidelines to listing a property. A framed in room in t...

I've been having a discussion with another @David Battle about tax delinquent lists and land investing using the strategy of @Seth Williams. I was curious, say I get a piece of land under contract for 30 cents on the ...

Hey BP,Filing my taxes for my first full year of being in Real Estate.  Every transaction I did last year was an off market transaction. All income came in as either an assignment fees or funds from vacant land sales ...

As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...

This is an area where there are a lot of vacant homes and it can be hard to move houses, particularly vacant homes that are not in perfect condition.  However, the area is well off and the mortgages on the homes are l...

Could anyone provide opinions or even direction/link on previous discussions within BP (I attempted to search already) on startup expenses to expect outside the obvious property related purchase/maintenance i.e. legal...