Ethan M.
Busy Bay Area business owner seeking to diversify through REI
My wife and I are interested in diversifying some of the profits from our business through real estate investing. I've been educating myself for several months, and am ready to make a move, but none of the deals I an...
Jenni G.
Fees, I understand but does this seem excessive to anyone else?
The required security deposit/move-in fee of $2795.00 breaks down as follows:Non-refundable administrative fee of $100.00--I get kind of like the $299 dealer doc fee a car dealership charges(Isn't that a part of busin...
Kyle Howard
What are the benefits in buying inner city distressed properties?
I’m currently in the Baltimore market and looking for some of the benefits to buying in the hood. There’s a large inventory of properties and higher cap rates plus we’ve seen what happened in philly and I definitely d...
John Papa
Real Estate and Fracking
Hi All,After spending time out in Colorado and the surrounding areas, my wife and I are set on moving, specifically the Erie area. After looking at a lot of properties, we found one we really like and are considering...
William Byers
Millennials don't trust ads, real estate or Social Security
Take heed investors - "the majority of millennials (59 percent) would rather rent a house than purchase one." according to the recent article below...and there are 80 million of them.http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth...
Bill Gulley
LIBOR RATES MANIPULATED!
Well, they got caught, Barclay, the Bank of England manipulating the interest rate of the London Inner Bank Offer Rate (LIBOR). This is the rate charged for borrowing between banks internationally.
If you have an adj...
Judy Parker
Landlord's Rights Being Violated
The landlord-tenant world changed last night. The US Senate’s COVID-19 bill changed the landlord’s rights. That bill, passed last night, affects landlords that have federally insured (or “backed”) mortgage loans. T...
Glenn McCrorey
City bans conversions to rental properties
I haven't hear of this before but the city of Cedar Falls Iowa is implementing a six month ban on home owners turning their house into a rental property. The ban can be extended for up to a year. Interesting, seems ...
David Taylor
What happens if regulations change in your market?
As my wife and I research options for our first short-term vacation rental property, we are looking very closely into local regulations in each of the markets/destinations we are interested in. What happens if you hav...
Dan G.
Setting up rent collection - in case I switch property managers
Hello,I am just getting started with buying out-of-state single family home investment properties (I still haven't done my first deal yet) and one thing I keep seeing over and over again is that a bad property manager...