I'm interested in getting into the rental real estate market in Dallas, TX. Just wondering if members out there have experience in this area and what works for them?  What type of properties are good to get started with?

I am about 65 and thinking of retiring  in about a year.  I have in the last year bought one house and one duplex (60K and 30K) ($850 rent and $350x2 rent) ( I presently like my property manager.).  I have about a mil...

Hi all, as seems to come up every year or two, when I am scrambling to figure out how to minimize  the club over the head,  the internal temptation of a SDIRA arises within. When I search BP there is a lot of info pit...

Sorry about the long post.  I think it is pretty cool though.  I had an amazing portfolio going for almost 17 years and got hurt very deeply in the world-wide crash a few years back. It took a deep toll on me.  I went...

My goal is to buy a house hack when I move next year back to my hometown after finishing dental school. I want to start my real estate investing journey by house hacking. I did two calculations for a 4-plex and a dupl...

We are interested in self directed 401K information and we have questions about cashing out a pension or rolling it over. Has anyone dealt with a custodial account in the Seattle area? We would like to find someone th...

I considering opening a solo 401(k) for our new long term rentals. Why aren't more people talking about this and instead refer to a Self Directed IRA instead (even though it seems leveraging a Solo(k) offers more oppo...

If I want to pay myself an hourly wage out of my real estate business putting sweat equity into an investment property, do I have to fill out a W-9 form? 

Hi! This is my first time posting. We just made our first investment in Memphis by purchasing a single family home through Memphis Invest. My question is--Does one usually need a termite contract? We have one for our ...

I hope there’s no one working who’d be dumb enough to bad mouth their boss on a blog, but you never know. Read this and just picture the auditorium of kids sweating bullets over the thought of what’s on their MySpace ...