I am ready to make my first purchase in an investment property. I have located the house and have spoken with banks, I will be obtaining a preapproval in the upcoming week. The property is 100k I'm putting down 20% an...

I currently own a home with my wife and newborn girl. I'm in the military for the next 2 years and would like to started in REI by the time I get out. We have a 3 bed, 2 bath single family home in a decent neighborhoo...

Need to replace an old oil boiler in my 4-unit multi/primary residence. Currently has an ancient oil boiler which is at least 50 years old, held together by duct tape and unmentionables. Barely got us through last win...

So far we have used a portfolio based HELOC to fund our acquisitions and rehabs.  This has limited us to typically 1 BRRRR deal, 1 Fix and Flip deal per year, or 1 note deal.
With this model I'm limited to the equity...

Hi BP! My husband and I have been considering moving from the suburbs into an LA Duplex 2+1 and a 1+1 for house hacking. There is a Section 8 Tenant in place in the one bedroom with under-market rents. We would like t...

After a few weeks of browsing the site and reading the forums almost daily, it's time to get my feet wet and start asking some questions. I live in San Diego and my market is kind of tight for investment properties. W...

I recently verbally agreed with a seller in my neighborhood to purchase a townhome from him for $130,000. As I understood the deal, he would finance the purchase and I would pay him $700 (542 in interest and 158 in pr...

This is so ironic: yesterday I scheduled a guy to come cut down two big elms on the property and today a tree branch fell on the tenants car. This branch came from a giant maple which, has proved itself to be rotting....

I inherited 3 properties from my father in Feb. Now that I’ve informed his long-time property management company that I’m selling, they sent me a letter wanting to terminate our contract immediately. They stated conce...

Hello everyone, hope everyone is safe and happy and moving forward in your respective goals.

I bought a duplex house hack in San Diego County August of last year using FHA.  I figured I would be in this loan for a ...