Hi guys, I'm kinda losing my mind over here. I'm from South Africa, and I want to get into property, namely buy-to-rent. The things is, no matter how I mess with the numbers, I always seem to get a worse return than I...

I would turn to my realtor on this, but her and her husband (my mortgage broker) are on Vacation. It has been hard for me not to call. :) - Just kidding (kinda)So, I found this foreclosure/ Lists US Bank. Transfer Val...

I'm currently compiling a list of homeowners to send a mailer out to. I've looked at list source and DataAxleUSA. What I don't understand is they can "sell" me access to this list they have, I can take the names/addre...

Can someone point me in a general direction as far as running comps without access to the mls? Zillow doesn't seem to be very accurate to me, Redfin doesn't have anything for my small city in east Texas. Any suggestio...

Dear BP members. I have several properties and I have been using Excel to keep a track of all my rents, expenses etc. I have been using it to for 8 years now and it has been working great but as I grow I am looking fo...

Hello all.I recently signed up for ReboGateway, which if you are unfamiliar with it is a public record database. I must say, it is really cool. Tons of information on there. However, with all this information, what do...

I am looking at acquiring another brokerage in our market, and for those who have done this before, how do you put a value on a small real estate brokerage? Owner has no records to speak of - I have been able to “recr...

Do you have to have comps pulled from the MLS by a realtor or can you just pull comps from services like Redfin or realtor.com ?

So, I narrowed down all of the property management software options from both the BP software list (thanks BP!) and a long CCIM forum list to my final two choices: Buildium and Rent Manager.

I manage an LLC ...

I was wondering if anyone would be able to provide input on foreclosure websites for instance Realty Trac?  Has anyone had good success with it?  Do you recommend other sites?  Any input would be helpful!