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Hi, My name is Chris, my background is in law. I was a commercial real estate lawyer (mostly working on the lender side) in my home state of Indiana before getting my real estate license and moving to Miami to work wi...
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Please forgive me if this has been discussed. Couldn't find the answers I was looking for. How hard is it to finance a $550k apartment building? Is great credit required? What about down payment? I'm 40 and it's way p...
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Has anyone in the Houston market successfully secured hard money loans for commercial real estate investments? I'm particularly interested in hearing about your experiences with lenders, the flexibility of approval cr...
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Hello, my name is Jeff Keys. I'm new to RE investing but i have spend countless hours reading and viewing website such as this one. I'm looking to invest in commercial real estate and would like to network/find like m...
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A client of mine has approached me about lending him some money for a commercial real estate deal that he is working on securing. He is an experienced commercial real estate investor with a $10M portfolio that I trust...
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Hello all,I'm a landlord for the past 4 years, I've successfully built a decent portfolio of 203 doors in total, I own properties anywhere from a single family home to a 12 units buildings. Being in the REI game inten...
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From what I gather, you have to pay sales tax (state + county) on commercial rent.I dont understand how they calculate this if the state/county are not part of the rental contract?
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Hi all, I am exploring an opportunity in my first commercial real estate investment and was wondering how much more I can expect commercial real estate insurance to be than residential. Right now, I've doubled my insu...
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Looking for recommendations - if you had to recommend one book on flipping and one book on multi family investing, what would it be?
Hi Everyone, I am looking to make a career change to the commercial real estate space under a good firm and I want to know what would be the best strategy to go about doing so. I graduated in 2015 with a Finance degre...