I'm also from the Cedar Rapids area and have noticed some listings for multifamily will tout being co-ops.

I have witnessed far to much financial devastation from LA investors buying properties that have touted the highest returns only to realize they bought in a very tough neighborhood..

If they are going to tout business for contractors, they have a responsibility to ensure the contractor is honest.

The GC is very good at meeting budgets but even the conservative allowance allows for profit, which is the way to go about things.At 50K, the purchase price is nearly allows for 30% gross profit margin, touted greatly here at BP!

However; many of the meetings like Investclub for Women tout "challenges" for which they charge $1197 for, and also have meetings.

Many of the legit and non-legit real estate gurus seem to tout owner finance.I've asked around where I am - in a big metro area with a healthy economy - and people seem to laugh when I bring the topic up, like it doesn't typically exist.However, I see owner finance deals actively advertised in some struggling cities and rural areas.Are owner finance deals only trypically common in markets where the economy is in the toilet?

I read Jay Adkisson’s book on Asset Protection that other folks were touting as the bible on the subject & I’ve got to say it is a better perspective than anything else I’ve read.One thing he harps on in his book is if a person uses a professional that puts out marketing materials stressing the use of the strategy for asset protection then it may get drug up by the litigator in effort to try & invalidate the instrument so that’s another super exotic reason I’d be a little leery to have Tim Berry’s firm tagged on my option docs.Regardless I’m convinced paying his consulting fee will be money well spent.Hopefully BP will help me gather a slightly better understanding so I ask more prudent questions when I do pony up for some hour(s) of his time.Thanks!

Because the US dollar is nothing but a big fat IOU from what is always touted as the strongest, "flush with cash and opportunity" country on the planet, we as Americans continue to go on with our lives investing in the same asset class (equities) and continue doing what we always did because we are satisfied getting what we've always gotten and frankly we are brainwashed and programmed to believe if we continue to invest in American companies, we will continue a 8-9 percent year over year return.

House flipping is back, and the Tucson market is being touted as prime for the practice.The stabilization of home prices last year piqued the interest of A&E TV's "Flip This House" producers, who will be in Tucson next week to recruit flippers.Than Merrill, the show's star and co-founder of real estate investment company Fortune Builders, said Tucson is one of several markets with "potential for a big comeback.""

I can see a brokerage with overhead doing this.The problem I have with brokerages is when they charge this stuff touting they do not make enough money.