As a recent graduate, I'm hoping to gain more perspective on situational and financial limitations that stop people from making certain investments. At the moment, I'm trying to figure out why most young people or peo...

Fellow Investors,Thank you for being a part of this amazing community here at BP!While having read thousands of forums and listened to nearly every podcast in my spare time, I have finally saved a significant amount o...

Hello everyone first time investor, quick question. Any advice on how to find and vet a contractor? And if anybody is in the Philadelphia area is there any contractors you have worked with that you can recommend. Than...

Hi all, I've never owned a property with septic or private well and hoped to get a landlord's perspective on dealing with these systems. Is it better/worse/same as municipal water-sewer in terms of maintenance & e...

Hi, I am a mid-40s, full time software developer in the Boston area. Instead of letting our saving depreciate in bank, we would like to invest them in real estate to combat inflation while we can create extra cashflow...

Hello, I just joined. I am Dave E. from the chicagoland, IL area. I am 25 and after reading about 15 books so far on real estate I am convinced that RE is for me and will help me acheive my goal of becoming financial...

I bought a 2 family the end of 2012 and have now completed my first year as a landlord. My accountant recently provided me with my Schedule E tax return for 2013 and I was surprised to see that my taxable income i...

For the last year or two, cars have been parking in front of my building, leaving tons of cigarettes and glass pipes on the ground.  They live in the building across the street, whose landlord doesn't screen tenants. ...

In the beginning it wasn't too hard. The property depreciation would usually shelter all the income from my rental properties. Now that these buggers are getting paid off the income is increasing and the depreciati...

I get hits on the key word San Bernardino about once a day. I cringe any time I see a newbie investor talking about investing there, especially when it comes to multifamily - which I absolutely would not be interested...