Philip Smith
FOI (Fear Of Investment): How to Convince Wife Investing is Safe
Short IntroductionI currently work full-time in a stable, but dead-end job. I am a IT Technician for an automotive company. Being a non-IT business, the pay is low, but I make due by fixing computers on the side and...
Chris Jensen
How do you really feel about Zillow and Trulia?
So I've thought about this for a long time, and I'm genuinely curious. Do real estate agents and brokers really hate sites like Zillow and Trulia? They're my go-to sites for doing initial, preliminary research on a ...
Duncan Taylor
Would You Use Big Data If You Could?
I'm a big fan of big data. You might even call me a fanboy when it comes to the benefits of big data as an investor. With big data I am able to reduce my costs, better manage my assets and as was recently pointed o...
Christopher Blanco
Flip Not Selling - 15 showings, all positive feedback, no offers
Hi all, I just want to get some feedback on why my Cleveland Heights, OH flip is not selling. Inside is completely renovated from top to bottom. Newer furnace, windows, and roof (all less than 5 yrs old). New Central ...
Michael Goldsmith
Are Zestimates as Inaccurate as We're Being Told They Are?
One of the first things I learned when I started studying REI, was that the estimates on realty sites like Zillow, etc. were wildly inaccurate. But are they, really? And even so, does it really matter? Let's go ove...
Julie Kern
First Deal: SFR or Student Rental?? - Brainstorming
We have a contract on our first deal as of today (see http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/1548... for details).Our original plan was to rent this out as a SFR. But over the last 24 hours, I started wonderin...
Shannon Kiefhaber
Thoughts on Dollar General
I am analyzing a deal to buy a freestanding Dollar General with a 6.3% cap rate and triple net lease with ten years left. I was excited about the deal until I visited the property and saw that there was a Dollar Gener...
Robert Kough
Water leak from meter to house. Does owner or tenant pay?
Ok so there was a water leak about 5 feet from the meter outside of the home. The tenant notified me of the leak 27 Jan and it was fixed 3 Feb. I spoke with the water company and the leak began during the billing cy...
Calus Glispie
Deal turned down bc of my “$1” earnest money..
So one of my deals I’m working on took me a while to get in contact with the owner but after following up we spoke and agreed on a price. i emailed him the contract and he said he didn’t like the dollar amount for the...
Account Closed
Seller went behind my back and sold the property.
Hello everyone. Let me start by excusing myself if I make and grammatical errors, but I am typing fast because I am a little POA.Okay, so today I was supposed to close on my first wholesale deal. Got the property unde...