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3 February 2025 | 56 replies
I love researching and Following the economic activity of Detroit. here’s a great post I shared recently - that shares insight into why I’m all in on Detroit.
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2 January 2025 | 37 replies
I've been running no-pitch meetups since the pandemic where we started online and it takes a lot of vetting and not over-promoting.
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30 December 2024 | 7 replies
First, I'd determine whether you like to be active (managing your own portfolio of rentals as you are today) or passive (letting go of control and day to day decisions/operations).
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4 January 2025 | 35 replies
Are you looking to actively invest or do it passively?
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20 December 2024 | 4 replies
Is it good or bad with a lot/little REI activity?
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9 January 2025 | 44 replies
You will need to find partners, you will need to travel to where you wish to invest, you will need to understand the ins and outs of the business by being actively involved and treating it like a business and not some super passive investment.If you don't want to do that work I suggest you just put that 200k into some sort of diversified mutual fund that can make you 10+% on your money without any of the work of real estate.At the end of the day this is just my advice and I'm only a stranger on the internet.
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17 December 2024 | 22 replies
For example, I have repeatedly informed him of my very negative experience with ABC Capital Investments (still going on almost one year with no payments to show for it) and yet he continues to promote ABC Capital Investments in Baltimore and Philadelphia despite fully knowing that many people continue to have very bad experiences with them.
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25 December 2024 | 8 replies
That way you know they are active in the BP community!
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19 December 2024 | 22 replies
As Account Closed mentioned, the first question is to decide if you want to invest actively or passively.
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27 December 2024 | 19 replies
If you are having that much activity but cannot find the right tenant than you will want to lower the price just slightly to entice better tenants OR you can relax on your qualifications.