The response I get most often when I ask this question is that it's disruptive to local lifestyles to have more frequently rotating tenants and as a result STRs can decrease property values.  The first one is qualitat...

After writing this, I now realize it's pretty long, so I put the main focus and details of the deal in bold and the rest of the fluff in italics.Prior to successfully completing my first real estate deal, one of the t...

How many of you investors that invest in c and d areas are blown away by how many folks in the area are on disability ? I guess I always knew there was a lot of people in these are with Mental  issues and that fraud w...

Should we refom health care? Do we leave thing the way they are? Do we pay $800 co-pay per month and then bail out banks? Are we listening to our president or do we disagree just to disagree? Please share how you feel.

The history of markets tells us that we will always have a crash.  

This graph shows total consumer debt in the US since 2003
Housing crashes come from over indebtedness, this graph shows that US consumers have mo...

So for the last year or so, I have been thinking more about physical health. I’ll be 50 in less than a year. Overall I do not personally know any active, long-term investors that actually smoke. Maybe they are there I...

Do people still buy property in California for any reason other than the weather? Seems like everything else about California sucks. High taxes. Soft on crime. People just stealing whatever and whenever they want. Hom...