Hi everyone,I am about to close on my first two properties in Philly next week (woohoo!) and cannot decide if I should hire a property management company, or self-manage the future renters.
I have a full-time job an...

does the approved tenant (for one of the 2 units in a legal duplex) have legal grounds to be demanding the owner's (landlord's) taxpayer id? tenant explanation is that intends to file a 1099 for each year she is owner...

I have been looking to buy my first buy and hold rental for about 18 months. I have enough cash on hand for a 20-25% downpayment and a contingency fund. I have an area and investment strategy in mind but when I went t...

The company entity issue continues to come up on this board as well as my landlord’s association. Here is a site that recommends against an LLC or corp.: http://www.johntreed.com/entity.html

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I am aware of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 but I was wondering if anyone has had any direct experience with buying a foreclosure with a tenant in it?

For instance, I assume to get protected from ...

Guys I wanted to start off by saying I might have possibly stumbled across the most amazing slept on investing strategy in real estate. Well maybe not slept on... who knows. I actually have been eyeballing a park that...

I think there are some initial signs that the Austin area market is starting to change.For the second time in 2016, single-family home sales volume declined in Central Texas, down 3.1% year-over-year from July 2015. I...

Hi BPers,I'm wondering if anyone here has experience in the Vancouver, BC rental market with long term tenants. Currently, it looks like Vancouver has a rental increase cap of 2.9% annually. Does this get "reset" to m...

HELOC or Cash out Refi?  This may be a dumb question, but just wondering which one is better to use?  Which one is a cheaper way to do it, or are they basically the same thing?I currently owe $176k on my primary resid...

Apparently surging violent crime, massive tax hikes and insolvent public pensions are bad for attracting new residents...who knew? On the other hand, 364 days of sunshine per year, minimal crime, brand new infrastru...