A financial advisor has told me about using a Single Premium Immediate Annuity (SPIA) as a vehicle to lower my capital gains with the sale of my rental property.  It is to be setup as a structured allotment sale over ...

This is such a basic question, but I don't quite understand the basics of it.

If my income increases by 3.5% per year (that's my current raise per year per our contract) and inflation has been between 3-5% pe...

So this here is a hot mess.  My Ex-wife currently lives in my fathers home. She has lived there for 8 years paying no rent as he was trying to help her out.  Now the situation has occurred that we need to rent the hou...

First I do want to say that I really appreciate everyone sharing their experiences and the wealth of knowledge I have found here. Of course, it's just added to my analysis paralysis! 
How did you get over that and pu...

Great advice that might have temporarily killed my plansHello Everyone,So yesterday I got some really great, honest and brutal advice about real estate investment that might force me to put my plans on hold for a whil...

I've been a home inspector for 14 years, and I'm just now getting into flipping houses.  I'm a total neophyte, for now.   But I'm curious about something.  If flipping houses is so good and such a lucrative business, ...

Managing a rental can be as tricky as a high-wire act, especially when it comes to picking the right tenant! A friend of mine, who not only manages but also lives in his triplex, is about to face a vacancy. He's con...

As someone who's relatively new to the Fix-N-Flip business, I'm fortunate to have a mentor guiding me, he's successfully completed 37 flips to date. With that in mind, I'm reaching out to tap into the wisdom of this g...

Hi guys!You have helped me a lot already to understand things about real estate. I have realized that I have been doing things wrong...(Like negative cash flow on my two rentals, etc) ...So I figured that may be you c...