Hi all! We’re looking at investing $1.2MIn Phoenix, AZ, Colorado, Austin, TX, or Apple Valley, CA.4 family members have chosen these areas for various reasons, and we need to make a decision. Would love your input! An...

Hello, and thank you in advance to anyone that can offer any guidance.  I'm in my early thirties; married with two small children. I'm looking for a suburb with good hospitals nearby* ( I work in healthcare), good pub...

Hi Everyone,We currently have vacation rentals that we utilize fully in the summer on vacation sites such as Home Away, FlipKey and Airbnb.  My question is if anyone in the Portland Maine or Southern Maine area has an...

Hey all,My name is Clayton Hamerski, and I am a Realtor in Wilmington, NC., a small but beautiful coastal city with beaches, a university, and an historic riverfront downtown.In the last year, I graduated from UNCW, g...

Ok, I'm wanting to get into buy & hold but either I am at the state of 'analysis paralysis' or I am not really financially ready to do it.  So I'd appreciate some advice!This is how I stand now:-Own my home now.  ...

Hey BP!I'm curious to know what the market for rentals is like in Marshalltown and Des Moines Iowa.  What are prices like? Is there any demand for rentals in these areas?  I've done a brief Zillow search, but I'm look...

Hi everyone! As a financial advisor having a diversified portfolio is essential. Is that the same with real estate investing or is there actually more risk because you will have a difficult time learning and exploitin...

Just put an offer in on a duplex in La Mesa, unfortunately the seller accepted another offer. Trying to stay patient, it seems like a lot of small multifamily homes (2-4 units) barely cash flow to cover the mortgage, ...

:cry: I just now withdrew my offer on the house I tried to get on the short sale.
We went in it a few days ago with a contractor. Much of the stuff had been removed from the inside, so we could finally see it. The "...

I live in Northern VA, where the job market tends to stay fairly strong even when the economy tanks. It's never been hard to find decent tenants for the rental properties we own up here.My wife and I have been talking...