I am fairly new to the world of real estate and I am still trying to learn the basics on how to start a house flip! How do you go about paying a contractor? If I do a rehab of $30,000 does the contractor take a percen...

Changing out a light in my duplex and...does anyone know when this became illegal? I know my place was built circa 1923-1927 and remodeled in 1945. I don't think this cheap aluminum and plastic fixture is seventy-plus...

I am a complete newbie and am planning to buy my very first investment property (very first property to be exact). I live in Los Angeles but the real estate here is way out of my price range. Does anyone have any advi...

I'd love to hear from folks about what they think of Airbnb and it's use for STRs. As an avid user of Airbnb over the years, when it started, it was viewed as this amazing alternative to hotels that offered a very com...

Hey BPI have a tenant that took it upon herself to changes the locks to my property. She’s been unresponsive, I’ve called, texted, mailed went up to the property and still unresponsive. She is in violation of her leas...

An investor who invests in a property with an 8 cap return for a hypothetical amount of $1,000,000 will earn $80,000/year in cash flow. IThe 8% return provides the investor a strong return which is about equal to ...

I'm in Canada. Cheapest places in the city I live in go for about 170k, and you couldn't get them for much lower than that (no distressed housing of any sort). Now, what you get for that 170k isn't much (an old tow...

I am an investor myself that owns multiunits and have had them for years. In this market if I was gonna buy, it would be SFR's b/c of the cheap prices. So my question is simply this:

**Why would an investor pay $30-5...

Hello, I'm Evan and I'm starting a house flipping/real estate business along with two other guys. We each bring a specific skill set to the table. I am a 27 year old general contractor, I can do anything in a hou...

Would it necessarily be true that the more deductions you claim on your tax return the less a bank will lend to you because of your lower taxable income?

So therefore, isn't this technically a catch 22 situation wher...