I want to share my experience with Jenny Yi, an STR designer in case others have had similar issues. I hired Jenny Yi to design our latest STR in person, she demanded that I pay the full amount of her services upfront...

I got a call earlier this week from a customer I installed a deck for back in 2002 . He is selling his house and the "home inspector "  says the deck wasnt built to code . The customer is upset , I told him to give me...

I own two houses in Portland, OR, one of which I have lived in the last 8 years- but we Just moved far away. I am debating whether to continue to rent them or to sell one or both of them. From the calculators I've loo...

Several times already, my realtor has called the seller or seller's realtor with our offer price instead of submitting an official offer. It seems like that could be good, in that you get an answer without having to d...

Hello BP,I've finally decided to post a short intro about myself.  I'm a software architect by day, and early mornings, evenings, and weekends I run a small commodity trading firm and am also a real estate investor.  ...

I have worked in corporate america for over 15yrs and investing in real estate part time since I was making $70K on job... Well, I recently lost my job now finding another one is so painful and stressful that I rea...

Do rents generally go down in an economic downturn?  If you are underwriting a property do you consider that the income may actually decrease (if so by how much) or do you think worst case scenario rents are stagnate?

During the worst recession in history, when NO ONE could get a real estate loan, I sold a property to a young family via Contract for Deed. They were to get their own loan in a year, after raising their credit score f...

I just experienced my first eviction, oh what fun. The actual process was pretty simple and I gave the tenant numerous opportunities to leave on her own but she refused my last attempt I even offered her $500 to leave...

So I wanted to write up our first OOS real estate deal. There was a lot of research that lead up to us pulling the trigger and going for it; lots of books and podcasts. One thing I want to mention is that these book...