However, the general evaluations seem to be way off and more geared towards homes.

The Cap rates in the Urban areas are gearing more towards funds, REITS and major companies that are purchasing them with Cash because they don't need to see a major return, they are virtually just parking their cash.I would recommend expanding your circle of where you want to acquire properties. 

The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own

We're gearing this webinar to our Invelo newbies and how to get the most out of your Invelo plan, whether you're on Starter, Individual or Professional. 

I switched gears to private mortgage lenders (friends and family network) offered 10% and that has proven extremely beneficial...83 rental properties later.

There is a FREE landlording meeting this Thursday, May 26th, at Tommy's Pizza on Dublin-Granville that features education (a Q&A session geared to newbies for general real estate investing and landlording as well as a featured speaker) and networking and has a good mix of newbies and experienced investors.

I have my first flip going right now that was brought to me by a realtor contact, but am currently gearing up to start going to the auctions.I paid someone to teach me how to go to the assessors office and sift through the docs and reconveyances to determine which note is in first position, but I still would like to work with a professional (title company or otherwise) to do this research for me and tell me that what I am bidding on is in fact a first.Does anybody have a good referral for this?

My realtor turned me on to this lending company, United Lending, http://ulmtg.com.I talked with one of their agents Josh Hanly.He was nice and helpful with my questions and had me fill out a loan application geared towards purchasing investment properties.I haven’t completed the process with them as I am still looking for a property.Hope this helps,Nathan Brooks

Right now, I work as a double decker bus driver in San Francisco so I can pay the bills, but I'm gearing up to just bite the bullet and dive into becoming an agent full time.

My real estate goal (for the long term) is to build a portfolio of mostly pre-war walk up apartments (my interests are geared towards townhouses/tenements that contain over 6 families) in the lower west/east sides including parts of upper manhattan as well.