
Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
Coming at you live from Nashville, TN.
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Real estate investing is one of the best ways to diversify a portfolio and make a little side cash. It’s one of the most stable markets there is, and you can leverage others’ money to make it happen.
According to CNN...

I mailed 500 yellow letters to out of state property owners. The mailer should have arrived in mailboxes around 3-4 days ago. So far I have received 2 call from the mailer. I used a standard yellow letter. No modi...

Regardless of what the talking heads are saying, the U.S. is in a recession. I haven't seen a May this soft since the financial crisis. The calendars for our properties are filling up decently, but it is taking daily...

Hey all,There have been a few articles on CNBC talking about new home sales plunged 25% in recent months (YoY) and also today there is an article talking about existing home sales also seem to trend down comparing to...

Hi there,ISSUE: A tenant informed me she is responsible for cracking my glass top range and wants to know next steps for getting it repaired. The glass top / cooktop part is no longer manufactured. If the part was ava...

So many people are scared of what is going on in our economy because of what they are told by others. Yet, they really don’t understand what is making our economy tick. I recently received an ‘economic update’...

Prior to covid 19, always hear multi family syndicators preaching how safe and resilient large multi family assets are. Boring but evergreen. Post covid 19 pandemic, I wonder how much this holds true...

Economic Update
(Monday, March 29, 2021)
This pandemic has really exposed the fault lines in our workforce demographics. It has exposed the divide between those who can work from home and those who can’t (deemed e...

Hello fellow Bigger Pockets members. I am a beginning investor in Minnesota and will soon be coming to a point where I need to find new tenants in my property - When is the best time to start / end a lease in Minnesot...