My wife an I live in a 3 bed 3 bath house in Nebraska. I bought the house for $175K (0 down) on a VA mortgage in 2012 ($178K with the VA funding fee rolled in). We have paid down approximately $35K of the mortgage (st...

I received 2 applications for my rental property. 1 of them meet the income requirements (about 5x the rent) but after doing a credit check I noticed that they have 2 accounts in collections (under $2k both) and in th...

I’m writing this post for all the newbies (especially military) out there who have yet to complete their first deal so they can hopefully see that getting a decent deal on their first purchase is actually achievable. ...

Hi, We're a couple in north Orange County and would like to invest in a rental property closed to our primary residence. We've been reading a few Real Estate Investing books and hoping to get some advises/guidance her...

Hi All,

Looking for a sanity check here with a potential tenant.

He called on a property, loved it with 2 minutes of walking through it (almost no one loves this property as it has a strange floor plan) and emailed...

When I first learned about cap rates I thought that they were a great way to compare properties independent of any particular investors financing situation. It also sounded like every particular area/neighborhood ...

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My partner and I have a few properties under our belt at this point. Up to now we have been using hard money for the rehab phase, it costs a lot but it's a necessarily evil.

We have connections to some fol...

One of my tenants has just been diagnosed with cancer. She's been dealing with various health issues that have made paying rent on time a problem. Has anyone dealt with a situation like this? I'm trying to be accommod...

First, thank you for taking the time to read this.  The Bigger Pockets community is very impressive.I read Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad Poor Dad" book over the past two weeks, and very much identified with his poor dad.  Peop...

Applied for a 5/5 ARM with 10% down. But I didn’t qualify due to my debt-income ratio. I already own one SFR in Boise plus my primary residence here in Portland, Oregon. So if I could figure this out, I would own a se...