I looked through a few of the previous forums on rat control and found a few interesting stories, but nothing regarding professional costs for the treatments.  One of my tenants reported a rat under her sink, we had a...

I'm looking for strategies to counter when a seller offers their "best and highest" offer. I know there are some fantastic negotiators out there so I would love to here some tactics. I'm in negotiations right now and ...

So I’m at a W-2 job as of right now here in Chicago and they have a good bit of over time, so my question is just how much should my goal be to put away before I even start looking to step up to the plate? I’ve done t...

Hey everyone. So I am a new investor and bought a few properties this year and things have been mostly good. The last property I purchased is a nice low income unit. The tenant was inherited. I realize i should have g...

Everyone has a different opinion on where we are in the market cycle. What is yours? Do you have a guess on when they next recession will hit and why?

So I sold my house and pulled out everything I had invested in it. I bought the house for $280k, sold it for $350 and paid $10k in expenses on top of the $60k for the renovations, so in short... I broke even. I have $...

It is time for a change and after making some money on our current home in Colorado, we are ready to get out of the mortgage while we are ahead. We are also anxious to stop paying our current $1350 monthly mortgage. W...

Hi,My name is Tony and I am from the Chicago suburbs.  I am just getting started in real estate, don't own anything as of yet.  My wife and I have been reading a lot of books in addition to BP for the last couple mont...

I have a family member who is a pretty successful business owner and I know he has money just sitting in a bank. I want to ask him to loan me some money so that I can get into real estate deals. How should I go about ...

Hi All. First post here, I've been looking at acquiring some income properties for a while, and been running numbers of a few to find the right one. Finally took the plunge on a two unit property and recently closed. ...