Kanchi Ji
Real Estate Agent's car
I live in Virginia in the metropolitan DC area. I have dealt with many real estate agent trying to buy property or involved with friends or family in their purchases. I noticed that just about every agent has nice l...
John Lyszczyk
Why is Lumber so Expensive? (Part 2 - Update)
Hello All,I thought this would be a good time to write a follow up post regarding the current state of rising lumber costs and the supply vs. demand issues the industry is experiencing. Below are a couple graphs that ...
Wendell De Guzman
How Do You Predict The Next Real Estate Crash? Mine is...
Mine is foreclosure filings and REO sales.Let me explain.In 2007, I was working on 20 shortsales and a business partner of mine was working on about 40 shortsale cases. None of the shortsales were accepted. This was u...
Kevin Parekh
Is the market going to go KABOOM?
*This thread hasn't been written to instill fear or troll other investors!So I am a new investor in the market (in Pensacola, FL). Important to note, that even though I have a professional degree and make over $100k a...
Jacob Rhein
What do you want in your lawyer?
Hi, investors! I'm new to BP and am starting some buy-and-hold investment activities in the North Atlanta Metro area. I'm also opening a solo law practice serving real estate investors in Georgia. I'd love to hear wha...
Patrick Long
Bay Area Deal Analysis - North San Jose
Hi all, I'm a newbie real estate investor. I just graduated about a year and a half from Cal and have been working since graduation. I've been saving hard for a down payment and now I think I might've stumbled across ...
Jarrod Pettit
What does it take to attract private investors now?
I've made my career in raising private capital and deploying it unleveraged into C class rental properties and recently for the last 3 years into Mobile Home Parks. Very conservative model that typically pays 12-15...
Matthew Wright
Moving from New England to a Southern Market
My wife and I are strongly considering moving away to a warmer, more tax friendly and most importantly, more opportunity driven market. This is no small decision, considering we have two young children and I have est...
Mark Douglas
Need help wording a seller-financing proposal
First go at offering a seller financing deal, and I'm a little unsure if I'm wording the offer correctly. Here are the numbers:4plex for $156k- I'm offering to pay ALL of the buyer's/seller's closing costs, and pay b...
Kellis Landrum
Learning about performing notes
I’m looking to learn the note business starting with performing notes.I would like to find a way to do this for a (relatively) minimal entry point of around 10K per deal. I would like to ladder out a few of these deal...