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16 April 2021 | 6 replies
If it's 5pm, that's life.
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16 January 2019 | 19 replies
Wholesaler “ That would be perfect”Title officer “ I was joking, I have a life and a family”Meanwhile I am screaming on the phone and pounding my fists against her desk.
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7 January 2019 | 10 replies
As long as the tenant screening is strong, your turnovers would be minimal (not factoring in life altering event).
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4 January 2019 | 8 replies
BiggerPockets is life changing, You're going to love it here!
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9 January 2019 | 11 replies
Just go a few steps up in quality... you’ll still cash flow on paper and even more in real life because you can’t put a price on quality, sane, and consistent tenants.
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3 January 2019 | 1 reply
While trying to acclimate to my new life I made plenty of mistakes in the face of adversity.
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9 January 2019 | 22 replies
Find great people and life turns on easy mode.
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21 January 2019 | 19 replies
You never know when you need the extra cash and never know if you will upgrade your life.
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4 January 2019 | 2 replies
In my area, we have an aggressive home owners association, that opposes up zoning, and report any violators.Normally, you can check with "city planning" on these issues.Then they make life difficult for violators.
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4 January 2019 | 7 replies
You will lose money on this (hopefully you have the minimal resources for it not to bankrupt you) and for the rest of your life you'll tell anyone who listens that real estate is just a bad, bad, bad investment strategy.You jumped into a very tight, very difficult, very high-risk niche specialty without studying it carefully, without having worked with a more experienced investor, without a network and a team in place, without giving yourself a real chance to go through the learning curve.