My wife and I are beginning to pool funds to begin a real estate investing venture.  I have a 401k from a former employer that I would like to leverage to our new business.  I have been researching "Checkbook Control"...

My goal is to purchase my first apartment building before the end of 2016 and I have been studying, reading, and listening to everything I can get my hands on. Recently I have come across information from a few differ...

Hey guys, I am still looking for my first deal and back on the hunt! Buy & holding "average plus" properties in my area doing yield a positive cash flow in my area. My new strategy is to rehab a "fixer upper"...

In 2012 we hired a management company to manage one of our out of area properties in Illinois. What initially looked like a great match turned out to be a disaster, and we had to terminate the company after just one m...

I just finished reading The Debt Millionaire by George Antone. Decent book (although I would recommend The Value of Debt in Building Wealth by Thomas J. Anderson over this one - somewhat similar concepts). The autho...

Background; I've 1031'd 4 homes in the past 3 years. I either turned one home into 2 or traded a smaller home for a nicer home that will hopefully appreciate and cash flow more. My long term goal has always been to do...

Hey guys,

So this is one of the properties I recently bought. It is probably going to be the most fun rehab I have ever been part of. I thought I share this with BP community. Pictures don't do justice to wha...

What's the latest analysis with regard to Dodd-Frank 2014 which comes into effect January 10th as far as how it relates to real estate investors doing options, lease purchases, seller financing, etc.?

This evening, a tenant of ours was notified by the police that a man they were pursuing had entered her home (our property).  He was of no relation to our tenant, just happened to be running through the neighborhood t...

Hello BP,I am going to do this thread as a thank you to all the help I have recieved from others on this site, and I am hoping it will help others to see me go through this process.Intitial closing and lessons learned...