Anyone here have, or are considering, house hacking with friends or family?
I have a couple buddies in San Francisco who I've been talking to about potentially co-buying a place in Tahoe and I am wondering if anyone ...

Hey BP friends, I'm writing as an active real estate investor in the Tampa bay market for the past few years.  Mostly, I buy properties cash and have been acquiring them through the auctions and MLS.  Lately, I've be...

Hey everybody,So my girlfriend and I recently started our direct mail campaign to an absentee list we got off listsource.1st touch consisted of small yellow postcards provided by yellowletters.com. We added ourselves ...

My concern/question is "Am I stuck with soaking half the rent indefinitely?"I have a rental property in Cornwall, Ontario and I bought a triplex that has two tenants on the lease.  They are (or were) friends and now a...

Hi everyone,So, I have been reading, listening, and asking questions on BP for a while now. I've started looking at various properties in my potential areas (although I am a long distance first time investor), and I f...

Hey All -We wanted to tease you with an awesome new feature that is coming soon to BiggerPockets -- our LIVE CHAT!  In addition to the forums, blogs and private messaging system, members will be able to jump in on a l...

(Apologies for the typo in the subject - can't figure out how it edit that)For someone looking to get into multi unit/apartments I hear it's good to take a look at a few properties along with running the #'s. Problem ...

Hey there! so I’ve got a bit of a struggle going on in my head right now, and was looking to see if any one, specifically appraisers had any advice out there. The triplex were living in right now we bought as a Duplex...

We are in the process of buying our first investment property. We aren't going to do this as a regular thing. Our situation is that we wanted to purchase a home in the area we want to move to in a couple of years and ...

After locating a property that I'm interested in on MLS should I contact the listing agent first or my buyer agent.I"d like to collect more information about the property, before contacting my buying agent.Thanks