Real estate is all about timing. Between 2009 and 2014, it was quite easy to flip here in Seattle. In those years, you could find REOs and short sales to buy or buy at the auction. Construction labor and contractors w...

You know most Hard Money lenders don't even know what CF is.  Or think it's a scam.  How long do you think it's going to be before CF's 9-10% wipes Hard Money's 12% out?  Or perhaps there are massive rate wars and whe...

How much do you save if you choose DIY ?

Do you think 30% or 40onaverage? Some cases is it 50%?
don't have mega bucks to jump in with
one benefit of knowing how its done is knowing when someone is trying to ...

Folks,I am a private lender, mainly for residential flips, and it kills me to turn away the vast majority of my applicants because they don't have the upfront cash to qualify for my loans. I require them to have subst...

I'm a reluctant real estate investor (I bought a rental property next to my house not because I want to be a landlord, but the previous owner agreed to sell for a low, low price, and I wanted to control the house next...

BLUF - a maintenance company my property manager uses approved the installation of an A/C unit to a third party vendor without our authorization. The installation was completed last September 2021 and I received the i...

Hi all,
I recently made the jump to being a landlord and I'm having some trouble getting off the ground with tenants.As of today, the house has been on the market for 43 days and I've reduced the rent from 2800 to 25...

I am the owner occupier of a triplex in Oakland. I would like to renovate one of my units, redoing the electrical (because it's painfully out of date), and redo the plumbing in that portion of the house before it beco...

For about two years now, one of our tenants has been paying for rent in cash. I am almost certain nothing illegal is being done to obtain this cash - they are in a band and receive tips for that and his wife is a wait...

First time landlord and I've got this couple applying that are telling me their 2 dogs are emotional support animals and that they don't need to tell me about them and don't need to pay a pet fee. I found an article s...