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What is the best way to prepare to get into residential real estate?
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Hi BP friends, my nane is Franklin and i live in the New Orleans area, I have been a BP follower for a couple years now. I am trying to start investing in Real Estate for the past year, I even got my Realtor License. ...
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I own a duplex in Oakland and I want to do a seismic retrofit which will involve disturbing two rooms (opening up drywall in two rooms, installing shear wall and anchor bolts). Lets assume worst case scenario that the...
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Would it be smart to put my website on my yellow letters? Thanks bp
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Has anyone used virtual assistants to call FSBO's or Expired's? I am a new agent, and I have experience doing sales calls and do not mind cold calling myself. But I was thinking of using a VA to do first touches to ga...
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East Atlanta Area, to be specific. Anyway, that's me. All of the really juicy details about me are on the question I just posted in the General Real Estate Forum (Attempting to escape my house!).
What else: Well, ...
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The way that I think of a forum post is as a presentation. To get the best responses, your post should look and sound professional. You are asking a mountain of seasoned real estate investors for their professional op...
I published a listing on zillow rental manager and I got a text inquiry within a minute which seemed odd to me. Text message had bad grammar and white spaces - typical red flags of a spam. 1. Is it possible to hide ph...
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Christine O'Donnell is a freaking idiot!
O'Donnell Is Idiot
Can't we find someone better than this to run? Crazy!