Inventory in my desired market (Denver) is extremely limited.  I decided to take it upon myself to start Driving for Dollars(tm), as they say.  My first sweep was for duplexes in my own neighborhood, as this is ground...

Do you have to have comps pulled from the MLS by a realtor or can you just pull comps from services like Redfin or realtor.com ?

Title pretty much says it all. There are a few homeless tents in the back alley behind our property, a duplex rented out to two families. It is well known that the city of LA has a severe homelessness problem, and the...

Hello everyone! I am really excited to be here. My name is Ken. I am a career soldier approaching Army retirement in two years.  I have always been interested in real estate. I made some money on the sale of my house ...

Hi BP,I have been reading real estate books, listening to the podcasts, reading the forums, and taking some online classes for a little while now and have decided that I should make a profile and start being more acti...

My name is Michael Reed. I am currently attending The University of Texas at Austin. I am a freshman Civil Engineering major, but after taking Intro to Civil Engineering, I decided being a Civil Engineer is not for me...

I recently made some tenants move out of their 2 bedroom apartment because they were allowing their dogs to urinate all over the floors and carpets. The downstairs neighbor said he'd never seen them take their dogs ...

I learned today that a shooting happened in one of my triplex last week and as a result someone died or was seriously injured. That happened last week and I just learned it today when I showed up at the property and o...

I have scoured the BP blog and internet and have not been able to find a clear answer to a few questions I have regarding Debt to Income ratio, so what better place to ask than here! So here it goes!1) I have had a re...

Who do you issue 1099s to? I have flipped a few houses this year and want to make sure to do everything right from a tax perspective. I know I saw where you should issue one for anyone paid over $600, but in that case...