does anyone here who has the means pay cash for your propertys? I am looking for my 3rd house I lived in the 1st and am living in the 2nd I will use a mortgage for all 3 but hope to have the means to pay cash for prop...

Here's a very interesting article that predicts massive job losses in 2009 will cause housing prices to continue to decline. That will mean that 2009 is a bad year to buy a house as the buyer could be upside down soo...

While checking out a roofer to do some roof maintenance on a flat tar and gravel roof, I discovered that the license number that he Gave me belongs to a roofer in Los Angeles instead of San Francisco where we are loca...

Hello,I am under contract to buy a duplex in Yuba City, CA, for $200K. At first I was really excited about the deal because most stuff I look at doesn't even begin to pencil out. A couple of investor friends gave me t...

I live in Greenville, SC and work as a real estate agent.  I live in a neighborhood that has boomed in the last 5 years.  There is a 2 bed 1 bath home on my street that should be listed at minimum $215k.  Its being so...

Okay, so my wife is reading about the horror stories of bad tenants and tells me that "We've been lucky".   My thoughts are that a horror story is more entertaining than a story about boring perfect tenants that take ...

I live near St Paul MN and I am struggling to find a sale where I would actually come out with a positive cash flow. Suggestions? Looking to purchase my first rental property!

With conventional mortgage rates hovering around 7% for 30 years… cash flow basically happens at 6.5% cap rate and above. If you don’t care about cash flow year 1 you can go down as low as 6% cap rate and still break ...

I am seeing a lot of properties for sale in Decatur area, lots of multifamilies too. It seems like every week i see a few more. Is there something going on in that area that everyone is cashing out? I look at some the...

Hey BP,During to foreclosure boom in Las Vegas we never staged a single home we sold and it became very obvious that what sold a property quickly and at the high end of comps was the quality of the finish. Because of ...