On a separate thread today there is a debate about flipping versus buy-and-hold. The point was made that one should focus their investment strategy and that diversion from focus is a sign of an amateur. Others disag...

Is there a such thing as good debt?If I have to categorize debt, I would say the debt I am paying for, it's bad debt. A debt someone else is paying for, it's good debt.Which means, if I have a mortgage on my house and...

Upon joining up with Bigger Pockets, I logged on to see an advertisement that said "cold calling is dead" that was advertising a book. While it looks attractive, the data simply doesn't support this proposal. In a...

I read too often contractors are more of the problem rather solution to investment strategies. What if you could find a local contractor service that manged contractors based on customer satisfaction ratings you provi...

Right now we are paying about $1,000 per month for a garbage dumpster at my 24 unit apartment complex, and it's pretty much always full. We can't shrink the dumpster or decrease the number of pickups unless people ...

Here’s the deal.
I just got my offer accepted at 132,000 on a REO that the seller is Fannie Mae. Inside the Purchase Addendum it states that I can not sell the property for more then 162,000 within 3 months of closi...

My name is William Alston.
People mostly call me Mr. Bill.
Why is too long for this post.

I'm in Sacramento, CA just watching the melt down... er ummm recession... I mean depression.... or riots maybe..

I am just...

My note business is growing and I am a rabid supporter of scalable, smart systems and processes. If I have to do something 1 or more times, there should be a system for it. I have heard quite a bit of good for PipeDri...