Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, from one real estate investor to another.
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We own and self manage about 800 single family properties (90% Single Family Homes and 10% multi family), build new construction for rent (no custom builds or for other people; however one of the LLC's holds a general...

I am rookie investor in the Naperville area. I want to invest in more rental properties but these days the inventory is very low and whatever comes to the market is being over bid on, so should i 1. Look at other area...

Hello BP'ers!I am looking to purchase a single family home for rental property investment to buy and hold in central florida: Merritt Island or Melbourne area. The problem here is the inventory has been so low it is a...

It is clear that the plan worked of the big banks for the release of new REO inventory in the first quarter of 2013. This has kept prices propped up in most U.S. markets and has also kept the ‘feeding frenzy’ going a...

I'm very new to real estate investing and I'm currently starting out wholesaling properties. I keep hearing that the available inventory of houses with good profit margins in the Denver area is very low. I seem to esp...

I have a condo in downtown Sacramento a few blocks from the new arena. It appraised at 300k with 150k in equity. I am debating on doing a 1031 with the property for 3 out of state rentals that cashflow 250-400/month e...

As a wholesaler, how do I use the historic inventory in my market to properly determine what percentage of the ARV I will use to make my offer to my cash buyers?Traditional wholesale formula is as follows:ARV x 70%, l...

Has anybody else heard that big corporations are buying up all the inventory, REO, foreclosures and making inventory numbers decrease? Any information would be appreciated.