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Ronald Perich My Connections... Feature already or am I missing something?
1 May 2015 | 2 replies
@Ronald Perich If you look on your dashboard (the home icon in the top left of the blue bar at the top of the screen), you'll be able to find a feed of all the activity on the site that is being conducted by your colleagues.Here's an image to help you with that:
Sonia Spangenberg What are a good set of questions to bring to the table when being offered a multi-unit portfolio opportunity with 100% financing?
21 May 2015 | 18 replies
It sounds like a combination of poor tenant screening/training and a bad attitude with code enforcement.  
Joanne Lo Areas in Sacramento
3 May 2015 | 10 replies
I will consider responsible and carefully screened students as well.
Richard C. Your lease is important...but it is not magic!
1 May 2015 | 3 replies
When an investor try's to tell us how to screen a resident and what to base our criteria on,from what their uncle in another planet told them to do I explain to them that our job is not just to collect the rent.
Roy Mitle delayed financing - what to what out for
13 January 2018 | 27 replies
It needs cosmetic fixes that we intend to do ourselves (paint, sanding hardwood floors, replace screens).
Derrick Alfonso Tafur A question before property investment......
2 May 2015 | 3 replies
If it's too emotional to see the grass die, your window screens disappear and a bunch of crap be in the yard, then maybe reconsider, ya know?  
Rich Ramirez 2% rule..is it still real?
5 May 2015 | 118 replies
Screening is the #1 thing to do in order to get a good tenant!
James Wise Shout out to Ariel O and his tenant screening product.
3 May 2015 | 1 reply
I just want to give credit were credit is due and get the word out to other investors about quality vendors.Details below.A little while back I responded to a forum thread giving advice to another landlord about tenant screening companies.Up until that point I had used a few tenant screening companies.
Ulysses Gardner Getting Started
12 May 2015 | 2 replies
Not a day goes by that I don't learn something new.If you aren't much into listening I highly recommend reading the how to guides listed on the site.They cover everything from screening tenants, structuring a deal, finding an investor, getting loans, etc.  
William Johnson Lease to own sandwich with current owner
4 May 2015 | 10 replies
William there are two ways you can help this seller using leases and optionsYou have to ask yourself whether not the property is going to appreciate overtimeIf you feel it's not going to appreciate, you need to get a price below the market today on your option with the seller,  if you going to do a sandwich lease option and stay in the middleIf you going to do a lease option assignment where you lease with an option from the seller and assign thevdeal to a buyer for fee, it  doesn't matter what the price is as long as the price is today's value or lessWhen I talk to sellers I don't talk about lease is an option, I first go through three columns landscape in a yellow legal pad,  and show them the basics of the choices: 1) sell with an agent and pay the customary costs include sellers concessions, agents commissions, closing costs, vacant house holding costs, etc.The first column it's important to go through an example of their house value; what ever  the fair market value is, do that exercise so that the seller truly understands he's going to net a lot less money selling agent than ur solution2) Second solution entails leasing out with the property manager, and you go through the cost to lease it out and also the cost to repair and sometimes property managers tack on other costs like padding maintenance costsThen I talk about the risks involved with leasing it to an unproven tenant, and then having to evict the tenant, lost rent for 6 to 8 weeks, clean the house, remarket and screen the new tenant, etc.Before I go through my solution, I say a "what if statement" that is something like this:Before I say the "what if statement" it's important you understand that I am using "negative phrasing" here, and ""appeal to a higher authority" which works a lot in terms deals like lease options, sub 2, and wrap purchasesHere goes.."