David Dey
Answer to those calling you vulture stealing houses from Grandma!
Do you hesitate to answer when someone asks you what you do for a living? Do you hang your head when the naysayers label your industry as a bunch of vultures preying on the innocent, trying to steal houses from littl...
Account Closed
Financial planning - What's a plan without considering real estate?
Retirement / financial planning are extremely important tasks. My biggest beef and frustration though is that the vast majority of planners fail to consider real estate and other investments when building a plan.
As ...
Michael C.
Types of Homes for Rentals
Just started my third book that was recommended through this site "Rental houses for the successful small investor". I did notice it was written in 1999 so I'll take parts of it with a grain of salt but expect the o...
Bryant Hull
How much should I value the purchase of a property management company?
I am aggressively looking for property management companies for sale in Orange County CA. I have seen pricing vary. It typically falls into 6 months of gross management fees on the low end and a year and a half of gro...
Angela Jossy
I am looking at a houseboat as my first investment
Some friends of mine are selling their houseboat. They've put a lot of time and money into it. It was their home and a place for them to do meetings and small retreats. They have two boats and they are selling them bo...
Roy N.
Private Money - where to begin
After months ... well, maybe a year, of lurking, I've submitted my "introduction" post and made a few other small contributions to some of the fora.
Now I've sat down to raise the questions responsible for my being h...
Will B.
Miami Gardens - Lessons Learned on single family Flip
A lot of this may be obvious to some of the readers, but I’m going to mention it anyway.I own other property in New York and Miami and incorrectly thought that this qualified me to do a flip. Initially, I had thought...
Jacob Morris
Creating a portfolio of Syndications as limited partner only
This might end up being a long post and hoping for some interesting conversation....... here is the bottom line.... Do you think we can build a strong portfolio with just syndication deals being a limited partner.So l...
Lisa Jones
Investing with debt?
I have credit card debt, student loans and a car loan that's upside down. Between my fiancee and I that equals about a total of $56000 in debt. Should I spend time agressively tackling debt or focusing the time and mo...
Chris Jones
Did the SF Bay Area market just turn?
Over the past few weeks I have begun to get the sense that the San Francisco Bay Area market may be turning a corner. I have very little data to back up my feeling, and I am certainly not a market timing expert, so I ...