My possible tenant is the top dog at a small local restaurant that doesn't have an hr dept. to verify employment so I need to speak with his boss, the owner. How do I figure out if the guy is really the owner and not ...

Hello good people, long time listener/reader first time poster. My wife and I have recently purchased our first small Multifamily and have signed a lease with our first tenant. The lease is signed and first and securi...

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First let me say I love the wealth of information on this site and others I have found through reading the hundreds of posts. Finally decided to actually sign up for an account today. But here is the reason ...

I have a vacation rental that I purchased and rehabbed with a loan from a family member. The rental is performing beautifully and I would like to refi the home and pay back the borrowed money. I'm getting mostly no's ...

After reading several posts from the blogs here about finding a 'good' neighborhood I realized I never posted the way I do it.  I ask the firefighters.Full disclosure I am one.  However I use the local station as a re...

Lets get right to it. Real Estate should not be depreciated.
Depreciation is one of the most beloved tools in real estate investing, but let’s take a moment to challenge the norm: Should real estate even qualify for ...

I will be moving to Utah in two weeks to help start and run a Hard Money Lending company for my uncle. He has the business setup has done roughly 10 deals and wants to teach me the business. I’ve listened to every big...

Hi,
I have a new property coming available, and a neighbor's retired parents are looking to move closer into the same neighborhood where my property is located. They filled out the application through apartments.com ...

I am interested in starting an investment club and wanted to see if any of you have some ideas of how they work, horror stories, legal structure, etc.  What type of deals do you do? What things worked? What didn't wor...

I just moved from Bethesda to a newly renovated 1BR & den apt in Tyson's...I actually wanted a studio but there were none available so I went with the 1br. The den is basically the size of a small room, and I real...