If you guys could start all over again, investing in Rental Property … what would your first 5 steps be?

generate absentee owner leads from tax records?  I have a programmer friend who created a script for me to extract 55,000+ properties my spreadsheet.... How valuable is a service like this to real estate investors?** ...

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My name is Bruce Waller and I'm CEO of Las Vegas Investments and Development, Inc. We help start up companies find seed money to grow. Also, we find "off list" investment opportunites and find end buyers.

I have been reading the site and other resources for a few weeks. This will be a wall of text, but I've thought this through and hope someone can check my math and assumptions about how this works.My goal is to compar...

If there are any appraisers out there, or people familiar with how they are done: 
What are all the things that are looked at when determining the value of a home? 

Currently i work at Brokerage Firm where i pay one set of fee so it does not matter how much i charge commission. All of my houses is Under contract and what is the best % i should charge myself? for tax purposes whi...

Hello,I've been sending mailers to homeowners in the area letting them know I'm interested in buying properties in the area. I've gotten responses from a few people. One owner who owns a duplex in San Francisco is int...

I've been in the game for a few years now here in the Wilkes-Barre or Scranton Pennsylvania area. All I have done is fix and flip. How is the wholesaling market in this area? Is anyone doing it? It seems like this are...

I am curious how others are going about this from an acquisition standpoint.  
I realize most buyers are buying existing, usually value add properties.  And estimating taxes on existing, older assets is pretty straig...

Question for the BP Forum: If you invested $100K and received $500k back, is that a good deal?It depends...We need to consider the length of time it took to receive that $500K.That's where the IRR, or internal rate of...