Do you own an investment property in Maui?  If so, I am interested in hearing about your experience with property managers, as well as rental income.  I am considering 1031 exchanging a townhome I own in Southern Cail...

Hello. My wife and I live in the Silicon Valley and as I'm sure most of you know, house prices here are astronomical. We tried for a while to purchase a 1br condo in the $400K range but we were routinely beaten out by...

We’re in Seattle for the weekend, and we love it here. Love it enough to want to buy rental property to give us reasons to come back and places to come back to.We're renting a car today to tour the surrounding area. ...

Hi everyone. My name is Vince Motel. I'm located in the Riverside area of southern California and have traveled extensively over the area for the past 20 years or so as a service technician in hospitals and musician s...

My wife and daughter are going to school to study for their RE license, Should I get mine too? I am a contractor and want to start flipping houses and I know getting licensed in RE will be a big help, but should I let...

Hi BP, First a little background on my situation: I am married with two young boys, ages 2 and 4. My wife is an MD and earns $200k+/year.  When we had kids, I was working as a traveling nuclear reactor technician and ...

I am scratching my head trying to figure out how best to report the auto expenses we incurred for two of our properties in 2012.

One property (A) is out of state, so we had to drive some ten hours one way to clean u...

My husband and I bought a bed and breakfast in June for $285k that was being run as a commercial property. We have not and will not renew any commercial licensing. There is a main home (built in 1901, 3/2.5, 1500 sf i...

Hi everyone! I’m Zack Martinez and this is my first time posting on BP. So to my question. I’ve found a deal (15k) on a mostly refurbished old military truck that is being made livable. It runs and functions and am go...

Hello everyone, I'm getting started with STR niche (used to have LTRs before and looking for better returns). I'll be starting out with my primary residence house to see if it's for me before I start looking for inves...