I recently purchased a home a little further away than I normally do.  I used a realtor familiar with the area.  I was pleased and decided I would use her to list the home as well.  I told her it would be ready in 3 w...

TL;DR: I want to offer on a few properties but the number that works for is well be low asking price. Like 30% lower than asking. Other than the risk of rejection is there any down side to offering? My market is prett...

She has been there a year and a half and on multiple occasions has been demanding and rude to me. She’s also a former lawyer for the FBI. She is very demanding, and kind of high-maintenance. But she always pays her re...

Lots of people have asked me how to start doing a "Rental Arbitrage" in STR (short term rentals - Airbnb is most popular but VRBO is another way).Rental arbitrage is you as the investor rents a home and becomes the te...

Below is the email that we just sent out to our tenants. Keep in mind, most people don't pay rent just because they fear eviction...Most people pay their rent because they are honest and they honor their contracts. Yo...

My mother bought a 2 family house for 514K back in 2006.  The mortgage was very complex and handled by the now defunct WMC(of GE), infamous for using scissors and xerox machines to fake documents, and anything else im...

I've tried google and BP but they haven't been my friend on this topic so I'll have to post here. I live in California and I'm starting to do flips all over the country. I want to set up an LLC with an S-corp for tax ...

 In working with investors in a tourism-based market, vacation rentals are a constant discussion. Not only because other people are interested but because I am shifting my personal portfolio to focusing on them as wel...

Hi, BP family. Quick question..We found a property being sold as is for 25k. However there’s a mold issue (not severe). Work needed is 8k.ARV is 63k. I believe I can leverage the fact that there’s mold to lower the as...

I have the dumbest of all questions... but believe it or not, it's not easy to find.I am buying my first investment property (and first property ever) this summer, and I have no idea who you contact first. It's so new...