I realize there is no sure fire way to guarantee a lender will agree to a short sale and in a lot of cases it seems to come down to "the bottom line", will it be it more profitable; or should I say less costly; tha...

Post by Austin Fruechting  motivated this post.. If you were financially free, and just wanted to splurge money on some new hobby or a toy or activity, what is the fun thing you would do? I will go first.. I am a huge...

If you had a million dollars to invest, what kind of real estate portfolio would you create? (One large apartment complex, diversify greatly, etc.). Curious to see different strategies.

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I have tenants who are racist to other tenants who live on the property.  Both tenants has made racist comments about the other tenants to my property manager when referring to the other tenants.  One of the tenant we...

1.0 IntroductionI really enjoy reading other investors' diaries of their stories. I always learn a thing or two from what they did right and what they did wrong. It is also what led to my first diary on BP - I want to...

I am an MLO in California. The Exemptions in California follow the Federal law. I am doing a survey. What are the laws in each of the other states with respect to exemptions and seller financing?Thanks in advance for ...

Last year, my brother passed away and left my sister and I with a condo (which we're selling) and 3 occupied, single-wide mobile homes in NorCal.  He wanted us to take care of his tenants because he said they were har...

Here we go......As I'm putting in offers I know one of them will eventually be accepted and the deal will close.  Had a few snags after having offers accepted recently but it's par for the course.  So when the good de...

I've pondered this investment for 3 or so years now, in fact one of the condos was avail in 2012 and when I called to write the check/submit my purchase contract, someone had beat me by an hour or so and lost out.Clif...