Hello everyone.  This was not expected to be my first post.   My profile hasn't been completed and I haven't networked yet.  I've been lurking, reading, and listening for months, trying to learn as much as I can befor...

Rejected, no counter, no answer or email returns... While some deals have been done, many are lost due to low ball or calculated offers... Would you accept an offer 100k under your asking? More then likely not so how ...

Hi everyone I am looking at making an offer on my first deal. I would like to have each tenant pay for their own utilities. I know some laws may require that certain things be set in place to have tenants pay for thei...

This is my first time buying an investment property and I have tried my best to learn the basic aspects of the process but the more information you have the better you get. A bit of background first, I was able to get...

Hello BP,
This is a hit to my pride to post, but I need advice. I completed my first rehab to rent in July of last year. It is a quadplex and all units were rented until recently. I just had my first eviction and,...

I have a couple applicants that are married with a newborn baby. She plans on staying home with the baby. They both have mid 700's on the smartmove application, which I think is really good. They both are college educ...

I could really use some cumulative life experience advice this evening! I just used the MySmartMove site for tenant screening and was greeted with a tenant score of "conditional" with a FICO of 468. I have had bo...

If I have personal retirement funds in a self directed IRA right now, what options do I have for investing this in real estate? And can I use this money to invest in real estate for my own business (to fund rehab cos...

So I am in the process of finding a tenant for my first rental (a townhome in Houston with no HOA). Many of the inquiries that we get are from people looking to lease and then re-list on airbnb or VRBO etc. I have lis...

Good morning,I'm a landlord with 1 property.  It's a 4 bdrm and rents for $1950/month.  I have been paying $135/month to a property management company and as far as I can tell, all they do is collect the rent, keep th...