I've heard some people manage their own rentals without living near there. My VA does most it for me here in nashville, but the main part I can't crack is the physical items. Who keeps the keys? Who stores the lockbox...

I know there are a multitude of answers to this question and each will have positives and negatives but I was just wondering....What would the best real estate investment be with $200k?  I'm in Los Angeles and I am pr...

How many hours a week does everyone spend solely on real estate?

What does the breakdown of that time look like? (ie 80% marketing, 20% follow up, etc)

Are you working more or less as you find success in real esta...

Whats the easiest way to learn the short sale process

So I found that it is going to be advantageous to me to purchase one of my new properties in cash, I am going to take a mortgage out in a few weeks later after some updates are completed to leverage the banks and keep...

[Note: I initially posted this topic with a poorly worded title - thanks to autocompletion on my phone - here. I am reposting with a new title and have cleaned-up the narrative].

I've been ap...

So we had an incident in one of our duplexes where a guest of the tenant was shot inside the home. I heard about it from the tenant on the other side who was afraid for their own safety, obviously. They have called me...

Hello BP community,I've had a terrible experience with a PM company in CO. They approved a tenant in Dec. 2023, with 4 prior evictions (latest being in 2018), and some other misdemeanors, and the PM ended up evicting ...

Hi,I purchased a house recently and my property manager did make-ready repairs in it. Nothing serious (not a fully-fledged rehab). There are a couple of issues with it, though, and I want to understand how you would r...

I feel bad.  One of my tenants is in her upper 60's, she works for a temp agency and has difficulty paying her bills.  She is never late and hasn't missed a payment.  She's been living in the building for six years.  ...