I've been on the Dave Ramsey bandwagon for the last several years. His advice definitely worked to get us out of debt and allow us to save a pile of cash. But as I look to get more into real estate investing, there's ...

I am trying to run through the whole process of wholesaling but need a clear answer since I keep finding different ones.Bianca is about to lose her house to the bank. She reaches out to Tom for a potential buy.Tom res...

So an experienced CPA recently told me that essentially all costs incurred prior to placing a tenant are considered to be acquisition costs and get written off only as depreciation. Is this true? I'm sure he knows wha...

In order to succeed..............someone or others must fail? Agree or disagree?This is a general question, which pertains to pretty much anything, including real estate. In real estate, there are many properties, but...

I'm trying to run the numbers for a beach house in South Carolina and am having trouble figuring out the expected income.  The house is 7 bed 4 bath in the Myrtle Beach area, but the house has been split up into a tri...

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

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I am trying to break into real estate investing with my first purchase. I live in San Diego, California, and buying something to rent it out doesn't seem like a cash positive or even break even option. If I live in it...

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...

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...