Iris Hou
Do I need to hire a lawyer?
I'm a newbie from CA trying to invest in my first rental property in TX or some other states with healthy RE market (good cash flow and landlord friendly). After doing a lot of research, I heard a lot of different opi...
Jeremy Cohen
Everyone Is Gifted But Most People Never Open Their Package
Hey Guys,I'm looking to get started in leasing so I'm building a team to get facilitate the process.I'm virtually unkown so I don't want to go in the market unkown which would be difficult so I'd like additional resou...
Brent Zande
HGTV Shows Aren't Showing it All
Anyone else get frustrated by those HGTV shows that make it look so easy to flip a home? Flipping a home is a business and like any other - it requires knowledge and planning to actually be successful. I can't tell yo...
Matt M.
How many of you are strict with the 3x rent/salary?
Hi all,I have just begun to try and stick with the 3x rent salary. Do you ever stray? I have a nice single mom applicant, works 30-35 hours/week at $17 hour, gets $400 month in child support and still isn’t close to 3...
Franky Juwana
Buy and hold Rental SFR numbers
I'm in Dilemma in figuring out the number on couple properties that I about to submit an offer. Prop1: Asking price 170kI'm submitting offer for 160kDp : 25%tax 4688/yearHOA 350/annuallyIns 80/monthflood ins: 40/mont...
Sam Leon
Parking spaces & bird poop
I have a tenant complained that her space - which is under a tall oak tree - is receiving a healthy amount of bird poop. She is asking to either move her to a different spot, remove the tree or to allow the use of my...
Allan Rosenberg
Patch of land rate of defaults and return of overdue funds
I have loaned ( alot) of money to rehabbers and people flipping houses in NY and NJ.A while back I decided to try to invest a very small amount with Patch of Land ( $5000). I was tempted to invest in additional loans ...
Joshua Dorkin
Your Toughest Deal - What Was It? Share Details!
There are a lot of discussions on the site about starting out, but I find that those discussions where people share the challenges they went through on difficult deals are the best to learn from.
So . . .
What Was Y...
Robert Steele
Is the market drowning in newbies?
I have been getting the impression over the past two years that more and more people are entering the world of REI.
When I started a decade ago I was somewhat of a pariah amongst friends, family and work colleges. No...
Mr Good
Deciding if this is the right property
Hello, I am a new investor to real estate. I want to buy a home with cash outright, to keep as a longterm investment. Rent it out. I may refinance it later and buy another if it goes along well.
I found a home for ...