Has anyone had success with asking a tenant to provide his/her own credit report when s/he returns a rental application?  Landlords cannot charge tenants an application fee in Massachusetts, and I am thinking it is ea...

Hello, helpful BP community. Here is my question re 1031 my duplex that is a 100% rental investment. I owned this prop since ’99, I am nearing retirement and don’t care for the hassles of property management and maint...

In 1979 at the ripe old age of 20, I was a fairly new Real Estate Agent yet one of the top listing agents in the area. While going through the expired listings early one morning I came across a bank REO listing that l...

We have 4 single family properties in town, and are in the process of looking to purchase our 5th property. However we are having trouble determining a strategy – we go back and forth between in-town lower income neig...

Hello Everyone. This property in Pittsburgh, PA is on market for $77K, but having analyzed it several times, it doesn't seem to work at those numbers. It has an ARV of 235k based on several solid comps in the neighbor...

We just put our rental up on Zillow, and in the 48 hours that it has been for rent, I have received 32 inquiries and four applications. We have not even showing the place yet. I am now thinking that we could have incr...

Hey BP! After some insistence from some friends to meet their realtor because they said ours were quoting us too low (we are putting our house on the market in 3 weeks) we were very impressed with her and now want to ...

Hey, y'all...hope you're having a great start to your day! Wanted to vent/shed some light on something that is so important but often times executed so poorly and that's communication. It's obviously a simple concept....

Hello All, 
I'm really trying to kick off real estate investing and at every turn, there always seems to be something stopping me. Right now it's this looming "prices are going to crash, mass eviction" hysteria. I ne...

I live in California and looking to buy an 8-15 unit complex in the mid west or southern states but I'm open to other areas. I was going off the Landlord friendly state map 2021 What are some good cities to look at?