Welcome to A Skeptical Real Estate Dude my weekly post on market insights coming at you live from Nashville, TN. Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, for all y...

Hey everyone,So I am about to close on my fist rentals.  It's insane. I completed my first flip, it went through three potential buyers that all ended up with lending issues, and finally is just now selling a year lat...

Hello everyone!I have been an out-of-state buy and hold investor for a couple years, but am looking to purchase my personal residence closer to home. The strategy is to manufacture a "house hack" by buying a property ...

I'm in need advice on what to do with my property management company. Here is the story, Im currently going through an eviction with one of my tenants in my Quadplex I recently purchased the past June. This is my firs...

I'm working with a seller on FCI Exchange who has not recorded his assignment and says: "We don't record our position until it is under contract. FCI can record our assignment at time of close." This does not seem ...

I need to hear some nightmare stories on subperforming notes.  Just recently began studying them, and not seeing the immediate risk.  Long foreclosure process?  State loan laws tough to understand? Loanee difficult to...

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We bought the BP’s tenant application for Ohio and we’ve run across a couple of questions regarding whether or not we should refund the $40 application fee. First question, why do the documents say the ...

I am looking for a property management firm for my rentals in Atlanta and many of the management company ask for 1st month of rent plus 8-10% of the monthly rents.  They'll continue to charge the 1st month rent for ea...

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I'm looking at real estate investing here in Massachusetts and I have questions for the rent payment and move-in costs. Is it legal to request a Deposit to Hold in Massachusetts? How do you collect t...

HI. i have a RE agent to list my rental house. we got an application and now i asked my agent to do a background and credit check. I asked him to use a tenant screening tool i saw online that . he told me that he only...