Hi everyone,
I’m new to real estate investing and looking for guidance on where to start. I currently live in upstate New York but am considering relocating and would love advice on where to move based on strong real...

@J Scott inspired me with his diary of a new construction project to do one of my own.  So not to be outdone, I'm actually going to do two.  This one will be for a project that we have recently completed.  I'll add ne...

Hi All, Here's a scenario I would like some thinking power on.

Depending on the choices I make, at the end of this year I may have somewhere around $60K-90K to deploy. Also, at the end of the year, my situation shoul...

Hi, I'm putting up a white paper.  This white paper tries to capture the research I did yesterday.  Basically, my wife and I endured a failed JV.  In the JV, we drove-for-dollars and collected 1,000 addresses.  The pa...

I closed on #37 this morning. it's located in westland. the surrounding cities are Canton, Garden City, Livonia, Redford and Plymouth.it's very different than what we normally buy to a point that it's unusual for us. ...

I am very keen on trying my hand at foreclosure auctions but I am certainly concerned about the risks. There are some horror stories online of people buying a property which a half million dollar debt attached to it.M...

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 ...

I've been looking for my first rental property in Buffalo, NY area and using the rental property analysis tool from this site to do evaluations.  I use estimates of 5% vacancy, 5% repair & maintenance and 10% cape...

I came up with a new way to quickly evaluate if a deal will cashflow.I call it the 10% Rule: if annual gross revenue is at least 10% of the financed amount (after putting 25% down) then it’ll most likely cashflow.For ...

Wanted to get a sanity check here before we get too much momentum. We were going to wait for the market to chill out and save for downpayment, but this opportunity came up and we're inclined to seize it.
We've always...