How are the short-term rental / AirBNB investors faring?  At what point in the future are you seeing your bookings start to pick back up?  Are locals picking up any of the near-term unmet demand?  How are pure vacatio...

Curious to the group’s ideas and procedures about renting to tenants with pit bulls. We have a vacancy and some prospective tenants applied but have pit bulls. I’m curious how others handle this, and if they rent but ...

This is my first time dealing with a short sale in which the owner on title is deceased.  The owner's son is considered the executor of the estate, according to the bank, but there is no legal trust set up.  We're clo...

Has anyone successfully sued a bank for an appraisal refund due to an appraisal that had errors in it?  Obviously suing the appraisers is much more difficult since I'm not the direct client of the appraisers but I fig...

I own some residential rental properties that I manage myself and am considering buying a vacation rental to add to my portfolio. I live in Oregon and am looking at the Oregon coast because I know demand is there for ...

Hello BP,I'm negotiating a sales contract for a property located in 21229 area.  My focus is cash flow so I accept the fact that the neighborhood is below average (but not a war zone area).  The property is close to E...

The house is located in Sherwood Oregon. We got our offer accepted on the house in February of this year on the short sale. Since then we bought another house in the Tigard area, but they are saying approval on the sh...

First off, This is my first post outside the confines of the local forums, so hello to all you wonderful people!A little background, I am a seasonal Wildland firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, this means I'm gon...

Hi Everyone!I'm new to the BiggerPockets community and very excited to join. I'm currently working for a startup in SF and have been really interested in venturing into real estate investing. I'm looking to learn more...

I love the idea of the 203K mortgage (which I learned about on a recent BP podcast), however I am not able to live in any investment property I buy.  I know someone I could "partner" with, who would be willing to live...