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Hi! My name is Vernon. I am a married father of 3 (2 boys, 1 girl). I presently work for Homeland Security. I am interested in improving my families fortunes and legacy through real estate investment. Presently, No m...
I and my business partners currently have a design consulting company based out of San Francisco and we're really interested in investing in a property together. The situation is one of our partners is a non-U.S. Resi...
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Posting as an anchor point to look back on in the years to come ( and to get familiar with the site). No background in real estate. Horrible financial upbringing, poor credit, debt larger than a football field, maxed ...
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Hi all,
I'm pretty new to commercial real estate in general (I've really only done residential stuff before), so I'm wondering if someone here might be able to make a suggestion, on who to reach out to for commercial...
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Once I've found this article: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...The main deal: Imagine a website, where tenants can bid against each other to get the better flat/house? Or tenant can overcome someho...
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Have you ever faced difficulty securing private funding? How did you overcome it?
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Knowing what you know now as opposed to when you first started off…
What are your best practices for screening for tenants that you found work best for you as you scale to many units?
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Credit score doesn't really matter, when renting in the HOODS, or urban centers in lower income...With that being said, What is your clear cut criteria for C class and D class units? - No violent felonies - No more th...
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Hey Everyone,
For the past few weeks I’ve been working to find ways to get cash from our home equity.
My family has a beach home that has about $2 million in equity built up.
I’ve come to the latest conclusion t...
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Yet to run the rental history, but the prospective tenant has acknowledged in my pre-screen check list that he (and his wife) have fallen behind on a rent previously. He says, they did end up paying up the balance. N...