I am looking at investing into real estate. If you had financing for $250k, what would you invest into for your first purchase?

Anyone ever heard of Realtors loaning the commission @ 2.25% interest rate as a Cash Out 2nd mortgage above 97% CLTV post closing? Example: 500,000 purchase x       3% $15,000 commission-  5,000  for tax realtor has t...

Earlier this week I unexpectedly found that I had some free time in the evening so I looked on meetup.com to see if there were any real estate meetups happening around me. I found one in Phoenix so I drove over to che...

Hello RE friends,

In an effort to move beyond theory (e.g. reading, speculating, postulating) and into practice there was a need to invest in a commodity.

Commerical paper doesn't seem as interesting because it's ...

Ohhh shooot! I often hear I can't invest in this market. I get it! I went to look in a less expensive market myself. My answer,  Dayton, Ohio. My husband had been there for training  for the AirForce so we had a littl...

Very often we see people on here talk about how they are educating themselves by reading books relating to the real estate and lending industries. And that sounds great, until you realize that mostly they are reading...

Interesting articles about what's really going on

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/02/02/warped-distorted-manipulated-flipped-housing-market/

Looks like house flipping (buy, fix sell rehabbers) wi...

I need to create an LLC for financing as well as liability reasons. This thread isn't about the pros and cons of forming an LLC.Rather, my question is:Should I hire an attorney to do it "right", or is it good enough f...

As I read posts, comments, reviews, etc about crowdfunding, I am increasingly coming to a swift realization. And it is that most people have hijacked the term "crowdfunding" and use it almost synonymously to mean "inv...

I'm tired of the midwest (Chicago suburbs).  My wife and I have lived here our entire lives.  We do not have kids yet or any other main reasons to keep us here.  So, we are deciding to sell our house, leave my job, an...