My main worry as an out of state investor is if I want to get a property at a discount, the property would needs to be in some form of distress. I would then need to rehab it so that I can rent it out as a buy-and-ho...

What is the best method for begginning to filter all this data. My thougts were:

1) Calculate mortgage based on purchase price and down payment

2) Apply 50% rule

3) Determine "potential" cash flow

4) Physical...

I am wondering if there are people on here who had success investing in Illinois? I live in Illinois, suburbs of Chicago. The high property taxes , negative population growth all had me rule out Illinois as a potenti...

Hey guys - I wanted to get a consensus about those of you who buy lists for marketing purposes. If you buy real estate lists (e.g. probate, absentee, properties with equity, etc.), can you chime in with:1 - What kind ...

First:I was a student of Brians for about 30 days before quitting the program.There were a few reasons I quit but one of the main reasons was I no longer had any trust in Brian Gibbons and the things he said he was...

Hi, I live in NYC and obviously didn't make sense for me to invest here so I ended up buying in a state I have never visited (super scary to make that initial leap). I'm curious if there's anyone out there doing the s...

I've seen multiple debates surrounding Dodd Frank and am feeling very lost. Some passionately feel investors should back away, while others feel there are still creative solutions for desperate home owners. Looki...

The house next door is owned by elderly couple (in a living trust) who live a couple hours away and bought the very nice house several years ago for their brain-fried and/or druggie divorced adult son to have a place ...

Hey folks!We just released another awesome free tool (for everyone - Pro, Plus, and Free members!) to help you stay more organized as you build your real estate portfolio. It's called the  Portfolio Tracker and we'd l...

Sorry, I just noticed I typoed motivationals in the title of the thread..

Hi! So I listened to a webinar guru guy a few weeks ago, one of his freebies. I have already studied a lot of the approaches he had mentioned,...