I know a couple of older (70's and 80's) couples who had their wills updated and their attorney switched to trust and charged one $6k and another $10k. That sounds excessive to me.The last older couple I knew had a pr...

This is the most basic budget question.  My wife and I use Mint.com to track our finances and we just finished sitting down and looking at our spending for the year.  This gives a really good place to start for a budg...

In November my tenants failed to pay their rent and my PM started the eviction process. Today I received a notice that eviction is set for Christmas Eve.

What do you make of that?

Would you suggest to the constabl...

Hi there, I need advice and I thought what better of a place to ask than a place dedicated to the type of people I (think) I should be trying to find (to buy our property). This is not an ad (and please let me know ...

Hello Everyone,I am due to close on a property that has an existing tenant. Long story short, I found this property off market. The current landlord was to sell this property and would have needed to evict the tenant....

First time poster and investment real estate buyer!   I am 30 years old with 2 kids and my wife stays at home.  Decided to get into rental real estate to supplement my advertising sales job.   Located in Effingham ILL...

Fair warning that this is a long story.  I'm also relatively new to my PM role so any feedback on how this could have been handled better in the future and how to proceed with this situation would be beyond helpful.So...

Recently I am looking into Texas SFH market. It was as hot as bay area several years ago, no, actually even hotter.  A new listing came up during Xmas day, and today there are more than dozens waiting in line for open...

I just recently posted for a vacancy in one of my units. The most contacts I got was from Facebook but I don't think I got one tour from there. 90%+ would send the message and never reply back to me. Sometimes I had t...

Hi BP,

I am still new at this whole investing. In my other post, I had decided to go for an SFR and aim for an appreciation in Sacramento area.

I have not found a property yet. However, as I was looking around, I sa...