Even areas I likely won't work in anytime soon (large commercial developments, for example) still spike my interest. 

Just got my real estate broker license and setting up the foundation to the broker and want to get everything set up properly via necessary online software/programs.  

I have a couple partners one of which owns land.  Can we build a fourplex on it then get conventional financing?  I think we will have some equity build in after the build and I want to use it for at least part of the...

Hey guys, i'm wondering if anyone can recommend a user-friendly construction software that makes it easy to schedule and maintain sequencing of events for your typical single-family construction project?

This will require a sophisticated software (electing to use Appfolio) and well documented processes. 

Anyone know about the Dog Deal software?

They are discussing pre approved financing, package deals, fix and flip, and even development potential ! 

One landlord I know who keeps the water bill in his name has developed his own system that trains the tenant on how to read the water meter, and to take the reading to compute how much to include with the rent for the water bill; it gets close enough so that he has not fronted the water payment for a tenant who decides to skip town.If you have the tenant get the water bill where unpaid water bills become a lien, you will want to have some way of tracking that the tenant is paying the bill.

I'll also look for development and competition. 

Most experts also feel that if you turn a shovel after entitlements that involves you creating inventory and turns you into a developer.