Hi,I’m looking for advice on our current residence. My family is close to closing on a new house, about 30 minutes from the condo we are currently in. The math seems to be screaming “RENT”, but my wife is hesitant and...
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I'd like to get a sense of the value of having a high visibility office location for a residential RE Agency. I'm looking at a location with good visibility along a street with 30,000 vehicles per day. Half a block ...
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Summary: I attended the December 2017 event as a VIP member. Compared to other events I attended over the past 23 years, this had the least usable content and the most red flags. I did not receive “VIP Education,” I d...
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I just spent an hour talking with an owner 2 months from foreclosure. They have had 2 people try to work their SS magic to no avail. I believe the last one was another investor in the area and the owner shut it down...
All,I currently have a realtor searching for multi-family properties as an investment in Connecticut. I have several concerns:1. I currently have been pre-approved by a conventional lender (up to 500k), and I also hav...
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So I sign a guy up last Thursday. He calls me and says he wants to short sale his house. He had it listed with an agent but the listing expired so I have my agent go with me to sign a new listing agreement, and for m...
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I just listened to a presentation in which a lawyer (SDIRA expert) said that you cannot perform physical work on your own rental properties held by your self-directed IRA. This would be a prohibited / self-dealing tr...
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I am writing this because I see so many post about Midwest properties and while mine was a rather easy (though still sot money) issues to fix not all of these situations will be. Let me start with do you have your tit...
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I’m currently self employed and have two rentals that were BRRRR’s.... my bank won’t refi again and my DTI is too high apparently for another property. (I have a car note of 13k. I offered to pay this off but they say...
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I am looking to begin birddogging in San Diego CA. I am a flyer distributor walking door 2 door all over San Diego county. I find distressed properties all the time and am looking for buyers. My question is if the...