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My wife and I are new investors currently stationed in Europe, with the motivation to not let that stop us from getting started. We've put in offers on 3 properties now in Dayton Ohio (where I grew up and still have c...
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Good contractors are so hard to find?
I dont have any experience dealing with contractors, but I frequent several REI message boards and it seems to me that one of the biggest complaints I see over and over is how ha...
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We recently moved to Southern CA. I wanted to get an FHA loan, put 5% down and purchase a multi-family in Pasadena, CA. I broke out my spreadsheets and WOW - I can't seem to make any scenario actually work, even to b...
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We are happy to report about the recent cash-out refinance of our 174 Units Apartment Complex in San Antonio, TX. This property won the San Antonio Apartment Association Property of the Year award for 2017. We did a ...