
4 July 2008 | 9 replies
You have to decide whether you will market it quietly and not disturb them in the process, showing the house to buyers via a ruse like "I need to show my partners or contractors", or just level with them and say you have decided that you don't want to hold the property and need to market it to other buyers, and will they please cooperate with your marketing plan?

4 July 2008 | 9 replies
This can mean a bank loan, mortgage, credit card, hard money lender, private investor, HELOC, etc.oic oic so let me as another question lets say i find a fixer upper for 60,000 and the ARV is 100000 and the repair cost is 20000, will the bank lend me money to buy and rehab ?
23 August 2008 | 18 replies
Luckily with commercial there tends to be less of an "emotional" or "fair market" factor to the valuation of the property in that valuation is often directly tied to it's cashflow performance so the bank will have a greater probability of not let you refi to a level that the property becomes a negative performer.
6 September 2008 | 3 replies
Some require the business to be "on sight"Another thing to think about is what will happen to your vacancy rate/rent levels when people see that there is a billboard on your property?

10 July 2008 | 13 replies
Use the search function in upper right, or just read all of the posts in the REO forum (there are not that many really and a lot of good learning contained therein).

9 July 2008 | 5 replies
The whole thing seems like a scam to me on so many levels -1 ) The "arrears" are listed as a single line item on the bill with no explanation of how they were derived2 ) We have never ever received a bill for any of the previous years (except for last years fee of $60)3 ) There are no minutes or any information about their policies or decisions on thier website4 ) I googled the "directors" of the homeowners association and they appear to be property investor types rather than local residents5 ) My wife was 13 when she received the land - whatever she signed (almost 30 years ago!!)

3 December 2008 | 12 replies
So, there's still a manager involved, as well as the investor who master leases the property from you.Why not buy into a REIT or apartment company if you want that level of hands off investment?

8 August 2008 | 22 replies
Personally I don't think anything with a cap rate under 10 makes sense from a business point of view.Cap rates vary greatly by area, even down to the neighborhood level.

30 July 2008 | 19 replies
They do tend to pitch a lot of books/seminars/tapes but they also go over high level concepts which really helped me in the beginning.

11 July 2010 | 20 replies
The upper limit is the out-of-pocket expense limit.