I'm a new landlord in a HCOL area with lots of highly paid young professionals. I have a well qualified applicant (2 friends whom lived together before), but one of them let me know they smoke. They assured me they wo...

I’ll start out by saying I’m new here, and have spent a few hours reading through posts. I’m glad to find a forum that allows discussion and advise on all things related to real estate.

Having said that, I’m have ...

How much would it cost a retailer to cancel $100M of lease obligations with a length of 0-5 years? These leases are usually about 1000 sqft in malls and some on streets. I've tried to look at public companies but typi...

Hey everyone. I have no experience in buying rental properties but I have done a ton of reading and I have a written plan to get started in the next 5-7 months. One topic I find a lot of negative comments about are to...

Hi All, My partner and I have been going back and forth and how to invest some funds.We could potentially free up  ~450k to spend on real estate and at that time could have three traditional mortgages left.We need on ...

Hi BP members - I've been lurking here and decided to de-lurk and introduce myself.

My name is John and I'm an REI noob - I own a home, but that's the extent of my past experience. I became interested in RE a couple ...

I went to visit a nice hell hole today, there was supposed to be a pool and screen enclosure. When i got there no screen enclosure, and very little left of a pool. It was about 95% filled with dirt. My question is ...

My fantastic Japanese tenant moved out last week. Today my agent put up a for rent sign. Second call was from a neighbor/busybody who said hoa had decided to enforce a ban on rentals. The ban had been part of the...

I've got a home up for rent (our first rental property) and several approved applicants (verified previous landlord, employment, credit check, background check, copy of driver's license, pay stubs,FB stalked, etc.)...

First time poster, first real estate deal!

I am purchasing a four-Plex, all 1 bed/1 bath. We've don't the inspection on 3 of 4 units; the other tenant refused to let us in. They've in the process of evicting the ten...