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...

I'm a SFH landlord interested in getting into a fourplex. Brandon says spend every day analyzing deals. So I do. And I am. But how do you analyze when the information multifamily MLS listings provide often makes no se...

Hello folks! I posted about this in the PRO forum and didn't get much response so I figured I'd post it here as well.  I was just denied a conventional cash-out refinance on a rental property that I acquired all-cash ...

Hello all,  I've been a long time lurker (Starcraft anyone?) and listener of the amazing podcast and I wanted to introduce myself.  I also want to commit to getting somewhat active on the forums and reaching out to so...

I'm a newer investor from Columbus Ohio, and I'm hoping to get some insight as to what's the better investment to make as far as starting out. Right now id like to know what is the difference between buying turnkey an...

My name is Brandon Kanakis-Pennell. I am from Richmond Virginia as you can see from the post subject. My experience in real estate has been literally investing in REITs, crowd funding loans, and purchasing my primary ...