My husband and I recently purchased a house in Lake Forest, IL that needed some rehab. We did all of our due diligence (three mold companies, chimney inspector and regular home inspector). After beginning the mold rem...

Please forgive me if this post is naive. I have a friend who has been investing in real estate for years. Specifically, he is involved in non-performing loans in the New York and New Jersey areas.  He always has told ...

We had a showing at our home today....the agent stepped outside to take a cigarrette break, leaving the buyer inside alone for 10 minutes, then putting the cigarette out onto our exterior concrete patio.
Is it approp...

Hi All - I've recently been bitten by the real estate bug; I've just finished Brandon Turner's Book on Rental Property Investing and am all-in on BiggerPockets. I'm still in the information gathering stage at this poi...

Hello BP community,For house flippers doing consistent deals, what tool(s) do you use for accounting? I've tried QB (admittedly, didn't try for long) and it didn't seem to be a good fit. Seemed like QB would be good f...

I am looking for some tips, advice, insight whatever, on a problem that my company is facing. We use the houseflippingspreadsheet to keep track of individual projects, which is great, but does not give any sort of com...

Here's the scenario:I'm taking the real estate exam in April and need your advice.  I'm currently the owner of a small dog walking business.  It's tough to scale and I'm stuck in it.  My dream is passive income and an...

I apologize in advance if this topic is covered elsewhere... I've searched around and all I've found is a topic about purchasing a vacation home instead of an investment property. But here's my situation... I'm a 25 ...

Hi all! 
My wife and I are getting ready to move from Rhode Island to Cleveland, Ohio in the coming months. We met while we were getting our teaching degrees, but nowadays she's at home with our two feisty (OH SO FE...

I have been doing HML for a few years. Really enjoy it and the returns have been pretty good. Am I crazy for wanting to start a private fund for HML? I really don't know anything about it except it requires SEC paperw...