I'm a real estate investment newbie living in Los Angeles.  I currently rent my primary residence to film crews which pretty much covers my mortgage.  I've paid off about 50% of my home and have around $400k in equity...

Does anybody have accurate up to date information on how a newly build or a renonovated structure will be appraised if it is a detached ADU . I have been told that it will be asessed differently on square footage to t...

I am perplexed...I own a house in Oakland CA which has an attached studio that I rent on Airbnb. When times are tight I will rent the front house as well. In my backyard is a single car garage that was built in 1959 v...

Technology is rapidly changing and so is the method of outsourcing work overseas letting Virtual Assistant's do some of the "technician" work. With that, how could one estimate a ballpark rehab cost using pictures and...

I have read on it and i still don't think i grasp it. I read a story where someone had a 300k house that went up to 400k in value. they then pulled out the 100k extra and used it get another house. they mentioned t...

I recently came across a new strategy that I don't quite understand and it sounds too good to be true. The principal is simple. Use your heloc to pay your mortgage and funnel all your funds in and out of it like a che...

I am excited to be closing on two refi's this coming Friday....both of which I applied the BRRRR strategy.  These are my 3rd and 4th property, respectively.  Definitely some things I learned that I plan to apply on #5...

Hi for all the landlord out there, I recently just had a tenant moved out because their lease is up and we no longer wanted to lease the apartment to them. When I inspected the apartment it is in a very bad shape - ca...

I've been looking at rental properties for about a month now, and have learned a lot during that time (I'm also a voracious reader, and am reading about real estate all the time). My down payment & closing costs ...

Are there any legal issues with direct mail marketing? I’m in Houston, Texas.
What about bandit signs?