Hello BP world.  I know you can receive a commission as a real estate agent / broker if you have a license and refer business to someone, but does the same rule apply to mortgage lenders/brokers.  Example - you have a...

I am curious as to what fellow investors are putting down as a down-payment on STR's. What is everyone's opinion on this subject? I am attempting to scale my portfolio of STR's and have cash that is burning a hole in ...

Help please:How can I do a background check on a senior who want to rent my 1 bedroom apartment in Mercer County NJ? He's 90 and doesn't have an email address so I can't process the usual background check via Transiti...

I'm looking at purchasing some sfr or small multi families in the western New York area. Does anyone know the income tax rate an LLC would pay in New York State? Besides being able to write off expenses, and deprecia...

Hi!My fiancee and I are new to real estate investing but want to get started. For broad picture to weigh decision... We're 30, make a combined $241K/year, have a combined net worth of about 400K (222K in retirement fu...

If you get something with owner finance or lease option how do you know when you'll be able to refinance? Is it usually a matter of your overall debt to income ratio and it's length of history? Or is it just the incom...

Hey guys,

I'm new to fix/flipping with only two rehabs completed, but just got a new project under contract I'm really looking forward to. It's a 3 bed/2ba colonial and needs extensive cosmetic work, and would like ...

Hey everyone I just wanted to share our first full house flip in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. The before and after pictures are the exact photos used for the listing when we bought it and our picutres we used t...

Redfin recently did a report on cities least and most likely to be affected by a recession. Least volatile were Rochester NY, Buffalo NY, Hartford CT. Most volatile were Riverside CA, Phoenix, AZ, Miami FL. The criter...

so, after a lot of reading on bp about the dificelties of a profit from a sub 30k house- i had to test it myself. the numbers on paper were just too good.button line- we've lost money on our first house. but, we have ...