is there anything i can do with empty lots? how do i know if one lot is better than another? on craiglist there are hundreds of people trying to sell lots and am wondering if it is anything special and how to wholesal...

Since yesterday a company called Nvidia is valued higher than Apple. Yes, you have read that correctly. 3 Trillion $ market cap. Nvidia is now the second biggest company in the US. Ask 10 random people today about Nvi...

What up BP?!I have been investing for about a year now and I am starting to experience some growing pains. I have been going strong with Youtube university, but I think I am ready for a little more hands on/over the s...

Do any of you give Christmas gifts to tenants?

If they are "good" tenants, I'll hand deliver a gift card from the local grocery chain. They can use it for gasoline or groceries. Depending on the tenant, the denominat...

Hey y'all.  I'm Kurt and boy do I understand the phrase "you don't know what you don't know" because, well, I know so vanishingly little about real estate investing that pretty much everything is a recursive "don't kn...

The popularity of Airbnb is not to be denied, but will it stay as the only major short-term rental company in the United States? 

Asking for money seems to be an embarrassing topic. It seems to be more embarrassing to ask for money from private individuals than from a bank. Why? I think because a bank is just an "institution" versus a pers...

A few years ago one of the investors who had multiple properties in Manhatan Beach CA, then Phoenix AZ, who has been doing it for 30-40 years told me: " A property does not really cash flow till its paid off"Honestly,...