I'm a gun owner and I own "that" rifle and "those" magazines, but the Sandy Hook incident has changed my mind. It's not just guns, but guns are part of the picture and such needs to be addressed. I had teachers that h...

I have had a interesting discovery recently. At the end of last year, I was finishing updating my financials and I realized that my networth had reached over 1 million dollars. That had been one of my financial goals ...

One funny thing about people is that while we are almost always well intentioned, we seem to do a lot of things that are just plain crazy. I, for example, still prefer to eat my oranges by dissecting each into their i...

Hello, my name is Dave Danforth and I live on the northwest side of Chicago in a suburb called Elk Grove Village. I come from a sales background and moved back to the Midwest from Florida in mid-2010. I would like to ...

I’m looking to acquire my first rental property and have come across several interesting opportunities over the last few months that have Section 8 tenants. More specifically, I walked a 3 unit property recently that ...

We are generating about 1.5 flips a month pretty regularly.  I am always looking for ways to cut cost and one of those ways is in the labor paid to contractors by hiring someone with the knowledge and experience to do...

Hello,This is my first time reaching out to this community for answers. I am a Realtor who is looking to wholesale. I would like to know how to get started. I have gotten as far as signing up to realtytrac.com and I a...

Hello,We are trying to stretch staying in our two bedroom town home with our three growing young boys as long as possible to save for a down payment on a SFR once the oldest starts into his teen years.  We plan on kee...

I am considering branching out into purchasing mobile homes for a buy and hold strategy. It seems that you can buy these mobile homes much cheaper than regular SFR's and still generate a reasonable positive cash flow...

Twice recently people have told me of this new strategy to use a HELOC to pay off your mortgage faster.  You essentially take out a HELOC to pay off your first lien, and then use that account to direct deposit your pa...