So I am closing on this house in a month.  The current tenants have lived there for 7 years, and were paying $750 a month.  I originally thought the $1100-1200 a month I would require for rent would have me looking fo...

@Brandon Turner on a few podcasts mentioned a minimum standard for SFR cashflow. More is certainly better, but he used $100 as an example of what he needed for monthly cash flow from a property.

For the buy an...

Hello Everyone,Hoping to get some advice.  We just settled on 1/6/15 on 12 townhome complex and inherited 11 tenants (1 vacancy).  One of the tenant is a police with a police dog living with her.  After we settle, the...

Hey Everyone,I'm currently renting in NYC and working in eastern White Plains, NY at PepsiCo. When my lease is up in July 2017 I'd like to buy a multi-family house and house-hack my way to more real estate investing a...

Hey allI have a condo on the market that is a bit of a unicorn according to my agent. It's a almost 1000 square foot condo with an open format . Basically a one level loft.
The price per square foot is Right on Targe...

I rented to a couple on 11/1. When I first met them they said they were renting a room and were looking for more space. 
They later admitted they were illegally subletting a room, the guy that they were subletting to...

Hey there BP Community! I hope everyone is doing well.
I jumped on to BP about six months ago, started reading and learning and in the last three months I've picked a Contractor, an investor-friendly Real Estate agen...

Hi all!I feel like I'm late to the game, at 44. I have been crunching the numbers on retirement and current debt, to find that the numbers don't work the way I want them to. I started looking into alternatives last mo...

Context: I am just starting out as a newbie investor and landlord after many years of hesitation. I have turned my primary single family rowhouse in Philadelphia into a rental. I did this because 1) that was always th...

I am new to real estate and was originally planning on doing the house hacking method to get started but in my area getting a multifamily is nearly impossible nowadays. I am in NJ and I already got preapproved for a l...