Hi Everyone! I'm new to the real estate investing game and am wanting to purchase my first multifamily property in Chicago in the next 6 months. I'm planning on taking out an FHA loan to take advantage of 3.5% down an...

A friend told me of someone that will be entering foreclosure soon and had a question in regards to this. Let's say he owes about 200K on the house; now how do you go about on trying to purchase the house? do you buy ...

Hi Everyone, I've been doing my research and the more I do the more I think this is an impossible task to choose the RIGHT investment. I'm scared that I'll lose all my savings by just starting. How did you get over th...

Hey Everyone,I am a Calgary resident, Canadian citizen looking for primary resources on the limitations of US real estate investing as a Canadian. My plan is to set up a C Corporation in the state I'm most interested ...

In the commercial arena I've been seeing many listings for corporate-owed properties with lease-backs. I'm curious why a corporation would want to sell-off their property and loose control of both their rent and an ap...

I got a quote from solar city to put solar on our personal residence. Our house is pretty large and our average electric bill is $275 a month.  If we got solar the total costs for the system would be $33,000.  But acc...

Hello all! Wanted to throw up a post concerning Environmental Site Assessments. I am a recently retired Army Engineer and licensed professional engineer. Over the course of the last 10 years I've performed dozens of P...

Hey all,This question has been asked in many forms and answered a hundred times. Feel free to link me if another discussion is similar enough to my question.Newbie investor; I have my first property under contract and...

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So for the past 2 months my brother and I have been looking for 2-4 unit property in Chicago. Our plan is to live in one unit and rent out the other units. We found a place that is listed for $2...