As a new real estate investor who has not experienced the cyclical nature of the market, I wanted to see what experienced people say about trying to time the market.  It seems like locally and in many markets across t...

My question is:If I have enough capital in the bank to purchase my first few properties in cash would there be an advantage to obtaining loans for them anyway? If I did just put 20 percent down on each and obtained a ...

Hello,I am a homeowner and I wanted to get experienced realtor input on siding materials and how it relates to the future value of a home.We currently have a mixture of aluminum (overtop original shiplap wood siding) ...

I bought most of my rentals at the bottom of the market or near bottom, other than 2 of them that I had to buy 1.5 years ago due to 1031 exchange that I needed to do for a long list of reasons.I have capital to deploy...

So recently ran across an article put out by BlackRock, they stated that there are three things that might be good investments during the "upcoming recession." 1. Real Estate2. Customer Staples3. WineFrom those three,...

The latest thread on calculating appreciation over time got me thinking. What factors go into calculating rent prices over time?

It seems that we always try to calculate the value of our property in X amount of years...

Just wanted to see what some of your thoughts are on the debt crisis and how it will affect real estate in this next cycle. There are a couple of things I'm seeing now: 1) crisis in Europe and to a lesser extent Asia ...

I'm looking at a property near Fort Sam a couple blocks north of I-35. The neighborhood looked a little mixed with some pretty nice houses and some other not so nice houses. Does anyone have experience/knowledge of th...

I'm not saying that we are on a bubble that is about to burst.    I am just looking around and not seeing how any of these homes are that great of an investment.  I think that they could be decent investments over the...

I am typically very conservative when it comes to taking on debt and over-leveraging myself.  But I can't help but think about the currency inflation the Federal Reserve and government have been pushing the past few d...