California real estate investor Bruce Norris has predicted a 20% price increase in California residential real estate for 2013. This is a huge percentage increase, and many people are shocked by Norris’s prediction. B...

Aloha, everyone!  I've been reading through BP posts, catching Brandon's webinars and podcasts occasionally, and have been focusing on learning more about real estate investing through other avenues as well for coming...

In June, I bought a 3 bedroom/1 bath SFH in Lansing, MI on short sale for $20,000 that I am now renting. I was able to find conventional financing from a bank, getting a 30-year loan at 4.79%. I'm currently gearin...

Hi,I'm a single mom with a six month old baby. I have 80-100k of equity in my house I can easily pull out. My plan is to stay home with  my child to raise her. I can't get a new mortgage being I am currently unemploye...

I recently read through as many posts on BP as I could regarding raising a small amount of money to use for my acquisitions. After going through - what appears to be a normal knee jerk, 'I'll just start a company and ...

Curious for thoughts on what went wrong...thank you for your insights!  My tenant stopped paying rent and had to be evicted.  While I'm thrilled this person is out, I'm out 3 months rent, plus legal fees and now about...

This has been an ongoing issue since the beginning and I'm learning the hard way to screen tenants properly. A family began to rent our newly built house in June and after about a month, the wife had been diagnosed wi...

Background
I'm a new real estate investor in Miami Beach trying to buy my first property, preferably locally*. I could spend at least $500,000 in cash on a property myself, $1-20 million if I go into it with a family...