This is the most basic budget question.  My wife and I use Mint.com to track our finances and we just finished sitting down and looking at our spending for the year.  This gives a really good place to start for a budg...

It's nice to see that some of our Constitutional Rights have been restored since W left office...

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Well, Minneapolis and Saint Paul decided last night that 99% of Nobel winning economists just don’t know economics as well as they do and decided to adopt rent control and save the cities. A 3% maximum rent increase e...

I have a tenant who came by way of a temporary housing agency. Their son burned their house and the insurance company moved them into a hotel. The temp housing agency found my rental through Zillow and contacted me. I...

I have been considering rolling my employer-sponsored 401K into a checkbook/self directed IRA for the purpose of providing hard money loans because I am DISGUSTED by the low ROR I get now.  What advice do veteran lend...

I'm posting in RE Success Stories but I really only have the first part done.Like many others around here, I had a hard time choosing what path of RE investing to go down.  I ended up choosing the BRRRR strategy.My ne...

As one who had never heard of the 2% rule or 1% or any of the other terminology that floats around BP,, I just became aware of the 2% rule. I was talking with a fellow from Oregon who was lamenting that there are no 2...

Hello BP.  I'm putting together my first wholesaling direct mail campaign targeting distressed properties.   I have yet to fully narrow my criteria and am considering 1) out-of-state SFR absentee owner, 2) owner-occup...

Hello folks! I'm new to this forum, and eager to gain more knowledge, as I'm on the cusp of making bigger investments. However, I'm lacking a plan to move forward. I want to share my story and get some feedback. I liv...