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We are trying to find the way to reduce our family expenses and start saving for real estate investing. The biggest expense for us is insurance. What do you think, would it be smart to stop spending about $300 per mon...
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My wife and I are planning to get a second vehicle. We've been able to get by with one to save more money. We're planning to buy our first rental property asap and plan to manage it ourselves, at least to start. I've...
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My wife and I are ready to purchase our first multi-family, first investment property. I was driving by a triplex in a low income neighborhood for 95k and grosses $1400/month. After I scoped out the property, I came...
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Hi! I'm a new member trying to decide whether to sell a rental property and would appreciate any opinions.
The property is a SFR in San Francisco. It has 2/1 upstairs in the main house and 2/1 downstairs as a...
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I'm looking for some benchmarks for figuring out how different areas in intown and near OP Atlanta are classified (A, B, C, D areas). I bought my personal residence 'across the tracks' in the City of Decatur 20 years...
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I have 1 property which rents for an above avg $1275/mo, SFH, tenant pays all utilities, yardcare, etc. We did a full reno 3+ years ago and have a mtg so cash flow is only about $450/mo. So far we have had 3 tenants...
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Buying a house is straightforward; managing it can be a whole different challenge. The same principle applies to real estate syndications. Over the past few years, many groups have raised funds and acquired properties...
Anyone else getting notified this morning of paused Ashcroft distributions due to refinancing issues?
We have been working on refinancing the asset in order to access the equity and create liquidity to earnestly res...
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Can someone please explain to me how, in 2018, we haven't come up with a better process for:1. The real estate title systemBetween title searches and title insurance - the real estate title system is a $15 BILLION com...
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I haven't been doing this as long as some of the big time investors here. But I've had a pretty interesting run over the last 20 years. And I'm just wondering if anybody else is seeing the same thing. I started in ...