Looking to hear from other residential landlords here in Austin. I continue to struggle with one trade consistently; landscaping. Both on regular maintenance and special projects. If you have someone you have been rea...

Hi BP! I'm attempting to solve a challenge. Currently we have 20 units, all needing mowing/lawncare.Currently I have about 6 companies handling this because the units are spread throughout the Chicago suburbs. Althoug...

This is the story of my first steps as a real estate investor and some of the challenges I faced. I'm writing this in hopes that other's will take control of their future and dreams instead of letting their past or wh...

My name is Tom Evans (how ya doin?). I'm the owner of a small construction company in Mansfield Ohio. The company consists of construction, chimney service, snowplow service, and real estate investing. My son will tak...

We're closing on our 4th rental tomorrow. We've bought one each year since 2015. When we bought the first one I was so overwhelmed with excitement and terror that it was hard to sleep for days. Would I fail? Would I s...

I'm just holding and waiting to see how this texas market holds up for a while. Applicants for rentals are plentiful. Meanwhile, I'm broadening my horizons outside of RE for the ducks of it. What are you all doing? Me...

What did you all do before you started investing? What jobs did you have so you could raise the funds for a downpayment and such. I am 15, i want to own rental properties and am wondering what i could do to raise the ...

Hello everyone,So me and my wife have 2 older cars both paid off. We were thinking about getting a rental property but also was thinking to upgrade to a pick up truck. We were doing some pricing in about the 30-35 ran...

I would like to hear from several of the historians here that went through the most recent housing collapse back in 2007 through 2010 regarding what happened to their buy and hold strategy in that kind of environment....

I just listened to a TED talk that outlined the inevitability of artificial intelligence taking over the world. 80% of current jobs are service-based, and robots will very soon be able to replace all of them. We can't...