I've been a realtor for almost 6 months and am currently exploring real estate investing.

Here is some recent news on some prime real estate.

Hello Francis,Skip tracing services charge fees because they aggregate data from multiple sources, often including private databases, public records, and proprietary data, to provide accurate and up-to-date contact information, including phone numbers associated with a property.

So you can't just get a pre-approval for all properties like in residential real estate, but a pre-approval for the exact property you are going to make an offer on (Is that correct)?

I'm wondering if it would make sense to source modular homes in China and have them shipped to and assembled in markets like Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, and other where you can buy vacant lots with utilities for as little as a few thousand dollars.

Hello Bigger Pockets Community,My fiancé and I are beginning our real estate investment journey but we live and work in one of the most expensive markets in the world - even though we are 20 minutes from San Francisco there is not a property in our city listed at under 1 million (yes).So I recently took a trip to Costa Rica for the sole purpose of identifying regions we would like to invest in and ended up finding a fantastic little condo for our starter property.

Hi Dennis, your newest plan sounds very reasonable and is a widely used strategy in real estate.  

@Tyler SteinkeI’m having a real hard time getting past the $100 / month profit on a $510,000 investment!  

Narrow your goals and start looking for real opportunities."

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