Today is Thanksgiving. Lots of time to talk shop, politics, or real estate investment with family and friends. I just spoke to acquaintance of in law, and he mentioned purchasing home within a year. I spoke to him abo...

In most instances, I would assume it is for two reasons. To generate passive income which will help eliminate the need to work and to help with our retirement.

Normally about this time of year, various magazines come...

I have over 30 roofing certificates.  I have done roofing for over 10 years.  If someone has any roofing questions I would be happy answer.

I've listened to several podcast and watched many webinars and they have all seemed to be blue sky positive type information and gives me hope. But then I read comments to questions posted in the forums and those are ...

I'm operating in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, and I'm considering purchasing property for section 8 rental. I did a forum search, and some of the Section 8 questions were a few years old, so I would refresh it. In o...

I recently (...like an hour ago :mrgreen: ) went through this thread exploring the old argument between the cash flow guys and the appreciation guys.More specifically MikeOH and Nationwidepi (Mike and will) and off co...

Twice recently people have told me of this new strategy to use a HELOC to pay off your mortgage faster.  You essentially take out a HELOC to pay off your first lien, and then use that account to direct deposit your pa...

I saw a commercial about real estate investing on tv today his name was Than Merril he was advertising his real estate course,he was saying things like you don't need any credit or no money down. Has anyone heard anyt...

I am new to Real Estate Investment and planning to buy it from Marquis Properties in Utah. Appreciate any feedback on good or bad about doing business with the company.

Thanks,

Ram Tummala

I thought I would throw out a topic for discussion....Tell me about the process that you go through to screen tenants.