Kim Stuart
Increasing rent for rental properties
Hi allQuestion for those of you with experience on choosing rental properties to invest in. As I am looking through the list of properties my agent has provided me, I have noticed that there are a lot of properties o...
Andrew Semler
What are the five best skills to focus on for a newbie
There is obviously a lot to learn and master in real estate investing. I was wondering from yall's past experience, what would you say the top 5 skills/habits were that made for your greatest advances early on? To say...
Will Barnard
Stop Doing Business With BofA!
Not technically a real estate company, however, due to their large amount of RE holdings/assets, this is the place for this thread.
As many of you know, there is a BP thread about the terrible business practices of B...
Francois D.
Equity build up rather than Cash Flow, why not?
Most investors favor CF rather than equity build up.
The advice is get a mortgage as long as you can (30+years) so you can have a few more hundred dollars in CF.
This neglects the fact that you pay more...
Collin Hays
VRBO now charging guests 20 percent for a booking
Wow, it's getting to where it's VRBO is the one making all of the money. 2 years ago, the service fee was under 10 percent. If you add in the owner's portion, VRBO is carving off 30 percent or more per reservation. ...
Keith Saunders
Major Banks Forging Ownership Documents
Just saw a story on 60 minutes about several very large banks manufacturing ownership documents. All related to mortgage forclosures in the past several years. It appears they can not come up with the real title of ow...
Brendon Woirhaye
Los Angeles County Rent Control
As many of you know, Proposition 10 is on the ballot for November, and if passed, it would repeal Costa-Hawkins which significantly prevents individual cities from imposing rent control. It is shaping up to be a majo...
Greg W.
Self Directed IRA suggestions?
Hey All,
I've become interested in the idea of a self directed IRA as I'm growing increasingly put off by my Edward Jones dude trying to convince me that a 6% rate of return is awesome. I'm also looking into the pro...
Charlie Moore
Tenant refusing to cut grass.. what should I do?
The woman in the townhouse I own.... will not cut grass and now township is on my ass How should I handle this
Nate Smoyer
WCAP Financial Services -- can I trust them?
I just off my second call with WCAP Financial Services.
Long story short, the salesman become combative when I questioned their sources of funding. I requested multiple times to get an explanations and clarity of ser...