If you’ve ever taken a loan from a bank, you know funding can take months and come with headaches. Experienced investors rely on unconventional ways of financing deals. Two methods of this are private money and hard m...

I'm a software engineer (programmer) and a  newbie in REI. I want to learn by using my skill.any suggestion??

Hey everyone,My wife and I are working out the budget on our first rehab and are taken aback by the paint quotes. Everywhere we read says we should be paying a max of $2 per square foot for interior and around $1.5 fo...

I am in the process of loan shopping for my first real estate purchase (2-4 unit multi family). I have gone to a mortgage broker (1 month ago) who initially told me I can do 5% down on a conventional loan and we did ...

Re: How can a buyer avoid the situation where his realtor buys the property that the prospective buyer (me) asks him to show me?  Said another way; Because most successful realtors are also property investors, what's ...

Hello everyone, I am a newer agent and during an open house I met an investor from the Bay Area of California who is looking to purchase rental property in the Central Valley. I of course do not want to waste his time...

Investment Info:

Large multi-family (5+ units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $740,000

Cash invested: $148,000

Two side-by-side multifamily buildings, each containing six units (twelve to...

I have a friend who owns tons of properties, but he's too busy to help me constantly try to find a property in Chapel Hill to buy for my daughter to house hack.  And...I don't have the money right now to buy the "PRO"...

Today, I was talking with a Phoenix broker of 30+ years. David said that when he was young agent two years into the business, he went to a conference where the speaker offered a challenge: "Do you want to make money i...

This is going to piss off a lot of agents.I was reading here on BP about a buyers agent refusing to submit an offer unless it is at or above the asking price and I kind of got pissed off.In today's markets the buyer u...