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What does it take to build a real estate business? What about a $350 MILLION real estate EMPIRE?Join us today as we speak with Grant Cardone -- motivational speaker, massively successful investor and best-selling auth...
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For the first time in my life I do NOT fear being in debt! I had tons of bad debt in the past and I fixed it with my current home in Lacey, WA. I refinanced my home and wiped out my bad debt! I owed over 22K to one of...
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We have a house that is harder to rent than our others. It's very clean and in good repair and priced well for our market, but it's older and has some odd features and it's not in the best area. Plus it's a slower ren...
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I typically haven't charged for applications, but I just used an agent who charged $40 per adult.
Then I found this article about a landlord in San Francisco who took 250 applications for one unit at $40 a pop.
http...
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I searched this on the site and it seems the answer is mostly "it doesn't matter, don't worry about it" but I care strongly about branding and also making sure I don't use words that have a negative connotation. I ne...
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Here’s Part 1Here’s Part 2I will answer the question: how I went from 1 house and an 8-unit building to over 1,000 apartment units and more importantly, what I learned along the way. I share my story NOT to brag becau...
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So I get a text today telling me that "Yesterday afternoon the CO² alarm went off and the furnace stopped putting out heat".
I let her know that she should have notified me immediately and called the fire d...
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1,200,000 foreclosures?
30,000 investors here at BP?
that averages about 40 houses each.
I am sure there are loads of investors not here.
so if 10% of investors are here, that's 4 houses each.
Ok everyone, please answer this for me. Im in the process of purchasing a property and getting the purchase and sale agreement done. I did this with my first deal and had the same problem. My partner and I use our own...
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/westboro.baptist.snyder/index.html?hpt=T2
I read the above article and was very disturbed by it. I believe in freedom of speech as much as the next guy, but like any other freedom...