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8 January 2025 | 7 replies
The city wants to tear the property and surrounding properties down Zillow said it’s worth 38000The city offer me 13000.I could use some adviceHard to give advice with limited information, but as a general rule, the longer you wait and the further down the line their project is the more valuable your property will be to them.Zillow (and all automatic online) estimates are very unreliable, so don't base on that.
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6 February 2025 | 12 replies
Online metrics can be good, but they wont paint the whole picture.
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17 January 2025 | 8 replies
Documenting your journey online or engaging on LinkedIn can also help expand your network.
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13 January 2025 | 10 replies
But damned if I can find anything online about landlords using it!
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9 January 2025 | 4 replies
My recommendation would be to get approved as a Landlord, contact the director's office and request that an inspection be completed before a tenant is selected (sometimes they will do this as long as you select a tenant within 14 days - which you want anyways), and have an online application and screening resource in place.
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26 January 2025 | 5 replies
Then you'll need to find land, acquire it, find a spec home buyer and set up meetings to design plans or buy a set online with mods.
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16 January 2025 | 6 replies
I just stumbled upon it online and I’m trying to research it myself.
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10 January 2025 | 12 replies
Quote from @Zach Howard: Quote from @Jonathan Greene: If you are looking at properties in the US only on Zillow, and not seeing them in person (I know you are in Hong Kong), this is just an effort in futility because you can't underwrite single-family or small multifamily deals only online.
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27 January 2025 | 11 replies
Thanks so much for posting all this info I had been looking at Apke Land or Land Investing Online, while they give lots of free information if you really want in depth or access to their letters you have to buy their course.
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29 January 2025 | 18 replies
The benefits of Kissimmee for a newbie is analyzing property potential is very easy - you will have a ton of carbon-copy comps to look at and the online estimators like Airdna can actually be pretty accurate.