I live and work in Jacksonville, FL and have noticed over the last several months a huge influx of out of area investors. One buyer has bought over 100 homes here recently and rented them out. I researched some of t...

HelloI am a total newbie looking to purchase my first rental property. I recently came under a lot of financial pressure due to changes in my personal life and money has become extremely tight. I currently have a mort...

Hello, I’m interested on getting some insight from anyone willingI currently live in Seattle and want to get into REI but the cost out here makes it tough to be able to get involved without capitalI read the out of st...

Bill Gulley posted in another thread that he'd rather have "5 150K properties than 20 32K properties, all things considered. Generally, less maintenance, less management efforts, fewer collection problems, less vacanc...

Hi All, I'm looking to buy my first property in Indianapolis, it's a duplex. Being in California I need to find a property management company. Please send me any recommendations you have. Thanks for your input, I real...

This is in Missouri.  One of my tenants stopped paying rent in October.  He then called me in mid-November and said he had moved back home with his parents, and he would no longer need to rent the unit.  His lease run...

Hey BP,So I just got my first house under contract (woohoo!) and everything looks good. Rehab is pretty straight forward, except for one thing: there's definitely foundation issues. There's a pretty solid vertical cra...

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I'm 28 years old, working in the hedge fund industry in NYC and would like to start investing in real estate. I've always felt somewhat drawn to real estate ever since I was very young and am ...

So I am looking to buy a quad with a partner, and we've agreed to split everything up 50/50. We plan on buying this quad together and then fixing it up, and after we do the refi out, I will be able to buy his 50% of o...

Hello everyone,My wife and I are new to investing, and we are considering house hacking. We have been looking at 3 and 4 units in Baltimore and DC. However, I have been thinking that it might be better to buy a home a...