I also have some blog posts and articles about making improvements and what is compensable.You also need to be careful about Alabama appellate court decisions in the cases of Equivest and Rioprop, which can contain traps that will come back and bite you and result in you not being paid anything at all but the former owner gets the property back, or being paid only for taxes and interest (but no improvements) and the former owner gets the property back.

The main problem with AI, IMHO, is the implied trust people assign to its conclusions.

If you haven't yet, you will really find it informative: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/money-612

As long as the 'ratio' is a 1.00 or greater, aka breaking even or positively cash-flowing, you can get that loan.These are 30-year fixed loans for investment properties and do not require your personal income, taxes, or debts be taken into consideration.Here's a good BP article explaining how you can use these:https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/questions-and-answers-abo...

Quote from @Steve Vaughan: I haven't bought into a syndication ,  but I will name drop a couple proven, tested ones I'd consider first if I went that route, if I could even get in /if they had an offering:  @J Scott of Bar Down Investments and @Brian Burke of Praxis CapitalBoth have written excellent books as well as posted and blogged about how to vet sponsors if you want to do further research.   

That's likely the discrepancy in the data.I have a blog forthcoming for BP which digs into metro area wide data and trends for median price and inventory levels.

Use the magnifying glass to find blogs, podcasts, and forum discussions on just about any real estate topic.💬 Ask in the right forum – If you’re looking for financial advice, head over to the Finance, Tax, and Legal forum.

It's basically built on top of WordPress core and they made it simple and easy to navigate.Where in wordpress, you have to get some plugins (some are also monthly paid) to achieve the same kind of functionality.As @Todd Heitner mentioned, SEO is not just about having a good hosting/platform and features, it's about utilizing the features in a way so your brand has visibility and people that come into your website gets proper value of their time spent.Here's a table comparison for you that I wrote earlier:Now whether you have a carrot or a wordpress site, for SEO, you will need:- Website Credibility (Personalisation)- On Page SEO (Keywords, Titles, Meta Tags, Description, Image ALT Tags & Optimization etc)- Monthly Content Publishing (Regular Blogs & Location Pages)- Monthly OFF Page SEO (Citations, BacklinksNow if you consider the cost, end of the day it's quite same for both the platforms.But if you are starting fresh, I see no point of having their 180$ plan, you can continue with 89$/month plan from carrot and assign someone in your team to put regular blog posts and update the location pages.

It's been a couple of years since we did an exhaustive study for BP - https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/1031-exchange-cost. ... prices have gone up.

Here are a few suggestions on how you can maximize the wealth of information available: Check out the blogs and podcasts, or take advantage of the search feature (magnifying glass).