Ryan Carriere
How are people reacting to a flattening/inverted yield curve?
Over the last few days, the Treasury yield curve has slightly inverted for the first time in about a decade. My understanding is that many people consider the Treasury yield curve to be an, imperfect, indicator of fut...
Joshua Dorkin
Diary of a New Construction Project
Back in March 2013, BiggerPockets and J Scott collaborated to release two books -- The Book on Flipping Houses and The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs (check them out here if you haven't already). As part of the book ...
Joshua Milam
What to major in College for RE investing?
Hello everyone, I have a family friend that is about to go to college and is very interested in real estate investing and says that will be his future. He asked me what he should major in and I told him business admin...
Anthony Stephenson
Has Anyone Used SEOMEETSREI
Has anyone used the company SEOMEETSREI for backlink services? I found them on the Investor Carrot website as one of their preferred vendors.
Cory T.
Evicting renter from a vacation rental property
Hello All,I have a one-bedroom vacation rental condo in Palm Springs that has been listed on AirBnB for about a year now. I have my first stressful problem: a vacation renter with a 44 day reservation who will NOT lea...
John Thedford
SW FL Real Estate Market Is Cooling--Longer DOM--Flattening Rents
Just looking over the market stats, it appears the market is slowing some. DOM are increasing (not to outrageous times) but this is definitely a difference. Properties under 150K still have the lowest DOM but the prob...
Aaron Gordy
Does the flattening of yield curve mean that a recession is near?
The yield between short term government bonds are very close to the long term government bonds. Usually that is indicative of not so good long term prospects. Given that the fed is already at historically long term lo...
Ron Thomas
House prices will never outpace inflation over time, its impossible.
Let me start by qualifying the title of this post with a couple statements. First, I’m not talking about your neighborhood specifically, although given a long enough period the title is likely to be very close to app...
Earlier this year, many Airbnb hosts expected the short-term rental market to fall off a cliff. With the threat of an economic recession, travel spending was supposed to crater, and with it, a slew of Airbnb failures....