When analyzing a luxury short term rental (STR) vacation home for investment in today's mortgage rate environment, the ROI & margins can be extremely tight. Investors that are looking to offset their investment co...

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I am in the process of wrapping up my first project. As expected, I had some troubles with the GC on quality of work, what was agreed to VS what was done, etc. I have met a lot of good workers in di...

"How do you find reliable contractors?"   I have heard this question many times on the forums and in the podcast.   The answer is that reliable contractors are all around and you have either rejected them or scared th...

Alright, I'm going to try this deal diary thing out.  I'm one of those people who likes to have everything wrapped up so I can post a success story but this should be a fun process to go through so I'll bring you alon...

I'd like to show a seller how I arrived at my offer by writing up my own appraisal and showing it to him. I know that anyone can be an "inspector" and was wondering if this is also true with appraisals.

So the majority of all of the contractors or people I hire to help at my rental I pay in cash because they don’t accept credit card or check and they don’t have an EIN. Another example is cleaning ladies and or painte...

I am new to REI and trying to learn all I can before trying to find my first flip and finding funding for that flip. I am wondering if it would be worth it to get either a real estate license or a general contractor l...

I have been battling a groundhog in the backyard of one of my rental properties for quite some time now and I'm running out of things to try (very persistent groundhog...).  The fellow lives in a fairly overgrown buff...