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2 properties for sale in the same neighborhood. 1 is 45,000 the other is 49,000. Tax assessment of both is 10,000 lower that the asking price. The offer made is: He, (the owner) will sell both for &5,000 cash and...
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Is there anything you want me to tell the National Association of Realtors about short sales? I'm not sure if Josh will allow me to mention another forum on BP, but I'm in an interesting discussion on LinkedIn, The N...
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I have a belligerant tenant whose lease expires June 30th. He sent me this message. in response to the lease renewal letter I sent him. "you cant legally ask me to pay 1/3 of the electric in an illegal apt. not leavi...
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I just purchased 2 houses in Texas. They were with a property management company that I did not want to keep. So on June 2, I emailed them that I was changing property management companies but to please mail me any ...
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Hi!My husband and I decided we want to take advantage of the equity in our primary home in LA County and start investing. We absolutely cannot afford anything local, but after visiting family in Detroit this summer we...
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I want to begin by saying that I do not recommend just ANYONE doing this, and my story is based in Florida and what we are able to do here....with that said, here's how our deal went down.I was contacted by a seller w...
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Another avoidable situation. This woman squatted for a year and it was NOT related to COVID in any way, yet they couldn't evict her. When they finally do, she's apparently gained a sense of established entitlement (wh...
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My Wife and I would like to buy another property here in Ventura County CA near us but we are looking at 7-800K, maybe a little less if a fixer. Do we use all our cash to do something in our back yard which will appre...
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Perhaps I'm generalizing, but I see some heavy hostility towards the idea of whole-saling in the forums. Why do a lot of members seem to be so against wholesale? I've seen "unethical" and "shady" thrown around a lot...
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i know this has been discussed on here plenty of times before and I'm almost positive I have read every post. I'm still just as uninformed as I was before. Reading lonnies books and starting to research the subject...