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Any investors out there knowingly investing in markets in general decline? My hometown is effectively a rust belt city. Population is exactly the same as it was when I was born and median income has stayed relatively...
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Hi everyone,Has anyone else experienced difficulty listing an apartment unit on Zillow or Apartments.com? I own a unit in a high rise building in New Brunswick NJ that I typically rent out to college students via my o...
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It’s painful to see people pulling back from the market in fears of overpaying because of false narrative that affordability is declining. No economic theory, and no policy works perfectly in isolation. It’s not acc...
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Has anyone structured one of these? Do you have a contract that you've used? I'll run it by my local attorney of course. Basically -
I can buy a property that I've leased for the principal balance at time of executi...
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Hello its Foster Algier here, AKA Godfather of wholesaling. I just wanted to share some useful facts on the subject of inventory. Distressed sales accounted for 17.5 percent of all home sales in Florida in February, a...
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What do you think the future holds for cities, regions, and states that are on the "decline"?
Some of your more basic examples include cities like Toledo and Detroit - the Rust Belt.
From an investment perspective, ...
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Self Storage has always been touted as recession-proof but data is showing people are spending -50% less on it since Coronavirus quarantining. What do the experts in this space think? Are folks deciding to cancel memb...
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I’m writing multiple contractors in my area. Ones with good portfolios, before and afters, etc. I’ve had two reply with “not interested”, “I don’t do this type of work”. Then I go back and they clearly do this type of...
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Based on our prospective applicant's initial contact he quoted 600 as his credit score and in our ad, we stated we were looking for 'good' credit. His credit came out at 530 with other delinquencies, judgement and li...
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Hey BP,I showed one of my rentals last night to a person who got through my pre-screening which includes asking if the person has had an eviction to which he replied, "Never". I did a quick search on his name and addr...