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18 October 2024 | 2 replies
What are the biggest pain points you've encountered when trying to find distressed or off-market properties?
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17 October 2024 | 16 replies
Which lender was it, and what were the biggest problems you faced?
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21 October 2024 | 18 replies
The biggest thing though is wherever you invest you hand select a great team to help you get started from a great realtor, contractor, property manager, and attorney
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18 October 2024 | 3 replies
OH ya remote rehab can be the biggest challenge there is..
21 October 2024 | 1 reply
Down paymentThe down payment is one of the biggest upfront costs when buying real estate.
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16 October 2024 | 13 replies
The biggest challenge is continued profitability.
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17 October 2024 | 19 replies
There is VERY LITTLE downside to collecting advanced rent and the pros far outweigh the cons..
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15 October 2024 | 2 replies
A lot of out of state investors reap the upside potential of the Nashville market (and protect themselves from some of the downside) by investing in the high-growth (yet moderately priced) secondary markets near Nashville (i.e.
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20 October 2024 | 14 replies
You're not going to get vastly different outputs without escalating risk and you're old enough to not want to do that.The biggest crime to your outputs by disrupting the inputs is interrupting the compounding interest.
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16 October 2024 | 8 replies
It seems to me anywhere nice anymore has a significant downside to it.