I have a contract with a Bank to buy an REO condo in Florida near Boca Raton. It will be a second home, I am paying cash, $100,000. I have bought and sold more than 200 properties in my life, about 60 of those have be...

I found a tenant for my single family home and everything was going smoothly. Once the lease was signed, there were a lot of problems that arose.  I did not accept security deposit or first months rent and told the te...

My co-worker has almost completely convinced me that the following strategy is the holy grail of building a real estate portfolio over time.  My plan is this, buy another house that has good rental potential and move ...

I can buy direct from an owner a 3 family at 155K. Here are the rents, $800, $750, $550. All rents without utilities. Taxes $350 per month. Estimate on insurance $150 per month. Not sure about maintenance, snow, lawn...

Hello, I had a property of mine listed for 3 months, and it didn't sell and we found a renter instead, so we ended the listing early yesterday. I have since gotten 15-20 calls from realtors looking to relist my proper...

So far, I’ve only done buy and hold residential real estate. I’m ready to start venturing into multi family and looking at some small apartment buildings (8-16 units) but wanted to get some recommendations on any book...

Can You "Force" Renters to Have Renters Insurance?

All I want for Christmas is my "First Deal"...can anyone help make that a reality???

I just read this article and thought it was very interesting. It makes a  lot of sense that these boutique hotel companies would look to smaller cities that are being revitalized as they can acquire property for a fra...

Hi BPI was wondering is it common practice to use a PO box and a "virtual" phone number (such as Grasshopper) for the privacy of my personal address and phone number.  I don't mind paying for these services, just wond...