Steven J.
Community land trusts; good idea or bad idea?
I was doing some research on land trusts and came across the definition of a community land trust. From the Grand Forks Community Land Trust website we see that a CLT is defined as "community-based 501c3 nonprofits wh...
Julie Hassett
Baltimore Investors -- Best 'hoods/'burbs for multi-unit househacking for SWF
Hello BP community!I'm moving from Los Angeles to Baltimore for business and I want to turn this great opportunity into my FIRST real estate investment opportunity as well.If you're active in the area, I'd love to hea...
Ashley Pimsner
Rent control in Chicago
If you are opposed to rent control in Chicago please click on link and have your voice be heard.http://www.votervoice.net/Shares/BFETcAkuAC6ZPA57o_T7FBA
Sheeva R.
Advice for new investors - where to start and what to start with?
Hi everyone!I am new to this forum and my husband and I are a younger couple interested in building our real estate portfolio. We live in the Bay Area where prices are notoriously expensive. The question that I have i...
Mason B.
too good to be true? What am i missing here?
Hello from Chicago, New to real-estate and potentially interested in starting with multi-unit properties here in Chicago. I been doing some light searching around and found some pretty impressive numbers with relati...
David Weis
How is the rehab market in your area?
I am in the Tampa Bay area and Wall Street has completely screwed things up here. They have pumped so much money into homes here to rent them out that the inventory is now just crack houses. I am sitting on money b...
Michael Rossi
A Terrible Year to Buy a House?
Here's a very interesting article that predicts massive job losses in 2009 will cause housing prices to continue to decline. That will mean that 2009 is a bad year to buy a house as the buyer could be upside down soo...
Shane Greene
Buffalo Investing
Hello, I am new to investing and have not started to look for deals yet. I am just starting out, hoping to find local REIA meetings in Buffalo, NY to network and grow my business. Hopefully I can build on many informa...
Darcy Maiangowi
Hard money loan flip to myself to get equity out
I want to build a home. I've spent the last year and a half building my credit up to 600 from 457. I want to be the general contractor and build my own house. My brother who has been a foreman building houses for 10+ ...
Jaden Griggs
financing first investment property
For a first investment property, with about $25k dedicated to put towards a property, how do most people start out? I'm looking to get my first investment property but the financial part is what is getting me hung up....