The Way Your Forum Post Looks and Reads Matters - Tip for Newbies

[Jonathan Greene]

The way that I think of a forum post is as a presentation. To get the best responses, your post should look and sound professional. You are asking a mountain of seasoned real estate investors for their professional opinion and they are here to answer. You can't have spelling and grammar errors everywhere because it shows a lack of attention to detail. A couple of things here and there are no big deal, but if you can't even take the time to clean up your question, why would you get the best answers?

No one judges your level of schooling or whether English is your first language; they judge your effort. It's easy to tell the difference.

Too many people think of these forums as a scratchpad for their ideas at the moment, but a one-sentence question is unlikely to get the best answers, and that should be what you are looking for. If you are on the run, make a note on your phone and then set a reminder to post it later when you have more time to improve it.

- Bullet lists are great and easy to read when appropriate.

- Spacing between thoughts also makes it easier to read than one big paragraph of TLDR.

*Before someone has a meltdown on this post because they are free to write any way they want, just don't take the advice. This is a guaranteed way of helping you frame your questions better and get better answers. No worries if you don't want to use it.