When talking to a seller, what is your best rebuttal for "A real estate agent said that I could get $X for the home".

Assume $X is much higher than an investor would be willing to pay.

My partner and I just closed on a three unit the end of July. We purchased the building from someone who was not a good landlord. Two of the tenants in the building are still on his year lease. The lease is very vague...

NYTimes asks has home buying and how home buyers look at buying fundamentally changed?  Austin and Austin home buyers were profiled in this Sundays NYTimes article.  I can't post the link but there is a paywall anyway...

According to this article, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/history-says-home-real-estate-is-a-bad-investment/if you take out the recent housing bubble and just look at returns on real estate for the past 100 years, you wi...

Home owner facing foreclosure who did not make a mortgage payment for 39 months called me to buy his house CASH AND CLOSE FAST.

I got him interested in signing option purchase agreement which indicate that he...

Hello all,

I've been working on a short sale for a few months now that I just received approval on. I am buying this as my first rental unit b/c I it looks like a great deal. Here are the details...

Property Descrip...

Hi there, I am looking at a Duplex in San Francisco. The current owner pays about $500/mo on property tax. The property was sold in 1999 for less than half a million. The assessed value of the property doesn't seem to...

I received an unsolicited offer for some pretty out-of-state. Decided to sell, but now I am in a quandary. I have a very short and to identify and purchase the new property here - and missing the Steadley would be dis...

First time poster, but definitely not my first time on these forums and I am never disappointed with the wealth of content on here. I am 23 and just closed on my first property this week using an FHA loan. I will hav...

Hey folks!I had some trouble figuring out where this fits, as it's more of a strategic decision I'm hoping to get some other perspectives about. I'm going to just kind of bare all of the thoughts that have been slowly...