Brian Dinkel
Marketing to absentee owners
Do any of you spend much time marketing to absentee owners? What type of success are you having with leads? I just started marketing to a list in my market and was curious if any other Realtors are having any luck wit...
Doug R.
Owner occupied conventional mortgage minimum time before moving
Hi all,
Newbie here. I'm sure this has been answered somewhere else but I haven't been able to find it. I just read this article:
https://www.biggerpockets.com/mortgage/home/income-property-owner-occupied-financin...
Gaurav Bhasin
Value Add Multifamily
Hello, I have a basic question. I am looking at a property that’s 12 units for $360 k. Current rent is $4800 a month, taxes are $6200 a year and insurance is approx $6k a year. Owner pays utilities which is approx $1k...
Grant Shipman
Co-Living Goldmine Trend Continues in Bloomington
Bloomington is a city located in south-central Indiana, approximately 52 miles southwest of Indianapolis. en.wikipedia.org
Recently, the city has been exploring co-living arrangements as a strategy to enhance afforda...
Alex Forest
Supply increase coming
This is an interesting article discussing the end of the forbearance program. The number of homes coming off the program is 1.5 million, with 1.3 million as inventory nationally now.As they note, many will resume payi...
James Vermillion
U.S. house prices tumble in October
I just came across this article discussing the housing price decline that occurred in October http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-house-prices-tumble-in-october-2010-12-28?siteid=yhoof). A lot of the discussion you he...
Benjamin Riehle
Importance of Passive Income in the Gig Economy
I wanted to share my thoughts on an article that I recently read in the Harvard Business Review. The article discussed the current job market, and how the lifetime career model is disappearing. The central focus of th...
Raymond B.
Latest home designs: Our house is Grandma's house, too
This article discusses multiple generations living in the same house.
Get ready kids, Grandma's moving in. Maybe Grandpa, too.
That's the hope, anyway, at the Bonaire housing development in Maple Grove, Mn., wh...
Chris Kane
Wall Street's Bet on Real Estate
As I was driving home from work tonight listening to Bigger Pockets Podcast 143 (which was excellent if you haven't listened yet) @Brandon Turner brought up a very interesting article that just came out on Fortune.com...
Account Closed
No slowing down the Columbus OH housing market
Just read this article in today's Columbus Dispatch. Economists are predicting that most US housing markets will begin to level off in the coming year, but Columbus is NOT one of them. The article discusses how, "Ther...