Meeting with a seller tomorrow based on Michael Quarles' advice on marketing to 65 and over with equity.

Home worth $450-500K as it sits now.

Owner bought in 1988 so nearly paid off.

Took $125K lo...

Hi Folks,I've been looking at communities surrounding my area (Portland and SW Washington) and considering investing there for a buy and hold strategy.  I am wondering, though, if I should be excluding any of them by ...

Yet another chance to be featured in the next issue of BiggerPockets Wealth Magazine!
Investors and homeowners, let us know: What do you wish you would have known when you bought your first property?
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A friend recently asked me to compare two Houston zip codes, 77008 and 77063, from an investment perspective.
Now, I'm a big fan of Texas, but the first thing I said to him was that the weather is HORRENDOUS. Anythin...

For the last 2 years a local factory has been renting my furnished houses for their visiting Chinese engineers. They normally stay anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. There is a cable tv in the living room, and cable t...

I'm not sure if this is of any interest to the community here, but from where I sit it's getting to be downright fascinating.

With recreational cannabis legal in WA and CO - and momentum toward legalization e...

Hi everyone,
I'm getting started in REI though I currently rent my primary residence, a 5BR 2800 sqft single family home (built in 2006) in a nice neighborhood in Durham NC (Hope Valley Farms) that I split with 3 oth...

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/surprise_home_stripping_06_09_2009

So last year I bought, repaired and rented 10 houses.  These were in a town on the other end of the US from my residence and I personally only saw 3 of them before buying them.  Below are some of my experiences. 1- No...

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