A little about me before anything else. I'm a Maintenance Supervisor in the property management business in California. I have some construction rehab / estimating experience along with decades of maintaining apartmen...

This is the advice I got from a relative six years ago when real estate looked like it would never stop going up, gold was like $500 back then. He had liquidated most of his real-estate holdings (he owned several hom...

Hey everyone. As most of you probably know they are allowing you to take from your IRA up to 100K and pay it back over 3 years with no 10% penalty. If you don't pay it back, you just pay taxes on it.  Of course I am...

A few comments over the last several days sparked a thought. Why do I enjoy investing in RE? Money is nice, but in some respects there are probably easier ways to make a living.

For me their have been several aspec...

I've been thinking about taking my short term rental business international but don't necessarily want to go through the hassle of obtaining a visa. Is this even an option? or would this be too much work for little re...

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on how to calculate a relatively accurate 5 year rent growth for a market? I'm working through the "picking a market" worksheet and workshop, and there are no clear in...

I'm interested to hear what investors think about Donald Trump as President as it pertains to real estate investing. Here's some of the things I'm thinking about:Demand for Rent: Presidential elections do not change t...

Heres my take on the Dubai vs. Miami property market!

In Dubai

Current demand is 40,000- 50,000 residential units per year.

69,000 are to be delivered by the end of the year (2007).

69,000- 50,000 demand of un...

The business model for AirBnB & VBRO is becoming more and more risky every day. The problem is various cities are intervening with new codes restricting what is know as Short Term Rentals(str). Length of stay may...