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24 May 2016 | 5 replies
Hi everyone, I'm new to the Silicon Valley and have sparked recent interest in real estate investment and development.
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24 May 2016 | 0 replies
I am looking for someone knowledgeable in the topic, that might help or partner -- I have a fair amount of RE experience, but have not done acreage development / parcel splits, or related, and am just getting to know the area.
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29 May 2016 | 8 replies
@Tracey Artist First, develop a relationship with at least one contractor, whose recommendations, quality of work, and ethics you have vetted.
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27 October 2020 | 10 replies
Kept searching all over upper coastal areas of FL, only reason honing down to CC because of the amount of development happening and by the number new properties coming in the market compared to other places whereas most properties in other towns mostly old.
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24 May 2016 | 4 replies
Hi I'm a web developer living in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
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24 May 2016 | 1 reply
I've also considered turnkey investing in the US, as I'm primarily interested in the development of passive income.
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30 October 2016 | 23 replies
For me the criteria i've looked at and started to develop basically goes 1.
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7 June 2016 | 12 replies
The investments are a mix of commercial property deals (self-storage storage, grocery anchored shopping center, small hotel, NNN developer misc parts of country).
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31 May 2016 | 31 replies
Brandon has BP, Ben Leybovich has CFFU, and others just continue doing things within real estate (PM, flipper, broker, realtor, developer, etc..) to reduce the turbulence.The concept of retiring quickly using RE has been published in blog posts and mentioned in several podcasts but it is oversimplified for mass media production.
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28 May 2016 | 6 replies
What is critical to do before a lot of this though is develop a game plan or investment strategy that fits your goals and overall intentions when working the field of real estate in general.