Dan Krause
Retail REIT companies as a source for acquisitions?
Has anybody ever approached a retail REIT company for the purpose of using their capital (as investment on their part)to acquire commercial, NNN properties?I mean the bigger public listed REITS. The same way you would...
Varinder Kumar
City finally adopted ADU laws, time to get to work. Need advise
My city has finally drafted out their laws for building adus in accordance with CA law. I am looking to build a 300sqft ADU for Airbnb purposes. Luckily my street with wide enough so i do not need to have a dedicated ...
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Google's Playa Vista purchase and appreciation
Hey BP!Here in Southern California, Google has made a significant purchase of 12 acres of empty land in Playa Vista, CA for $120MM. You can read about this move in a Dec '14 LA Times article here: http://www.latimes.c...
Simon May
New York City - Brooklyn - Midwood - Condo
Hello All,I have a condo unit in the Midwood area of Brooklyn, New York. I did not list this on the public market yet. The building is newly developed and still has tax abatement for 10+ years. My tenant has moved out...
Casey Andersen
Denver neighborhoods and architecture
In all fairness this is not a strictly real estate investment related post, but, here goes:I'll be visiting Denver for a weekend (planning to rent a car), and I love all things real estate and architecture. Any sugge...
Gerardo Bejarano G.
Fannie Mae: "mild recession". Good Idea to Build Ground Up Multifamily in Houston?
Hello everyone.
Gerardo here.
I'm a New Real Estate Investor from Mexico.
I was reading about the latest news that Fannie Mae expects a "mild recession" in the next few quarters.Fannie Mae Expects a Recession as M...
Vicki Gleitz
smoking rules
My son has already decided that he wants no tobacco smoking in his rental[e-cigs are fine] Colorado has legal cannabis. Would it be alright to ask tenants to either smoke recreationally only in the back yard unless t...
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Most accurate websites with pre-foreclosure data?
Hi Everyone, I'll be sending my first mail campaign to owners in the pre-foreclosure phase. Any recommendations of what website I should be using? I know some providers have very outdated data. Any tips would be grea...
Roman Gwin
Contractor referral - Phoenix
We are looking to rehab a pretty rundown 18 unit apartment building in the downtown Phoenix area. I have done 1 project in Phoenix and was happy with the contractor I used, however, it was for a SFR and was more high...
Tony Marcelle
Why would they pay so much?
I was looking at comps for a house I was checking out. The home is not located in a high income community. I saw one comp similar to that home that sold for over $1 million. Why would a buyer even it is a corporate bu...