David Ivy
August 2019 Austin Market Report
The August 2019 Central Texas Housing Market Report is out from the Austin Board of REALTORS (ABoR). The close of August marked the end of the summer "selling season" in Austin. Area home sales continued to increase d...
Jared Smith
Arizona's Booming Tourism Sector: Revenue Reaches $1 Billion!
BP, more fantastic news below as it relates to real estate investing in Arizona! - Jared
Arizona’s booming tourism sector broke records again last year, with visitors spending $24.4 billion in 2018 and generating mor...
Catherine Ding
Saudi Arabia officially shifting away from the petro dollar -- effect on RE?
Looks like the petrodollar deal just expired and Saudi Arabia has said it does not plan to renew... what are your thoughts on how this will impact real estate? Everyone's waiting for interest rates to fall but not sur...
Nathan Gesner
Most famous squatter evicted, after 23 years!
He's finally out after 23 years. His scumbag lawyer gives a ridiculous justification at the end. Daily Mail: Long Island man who went more than two decades without paying a penny on his mortgage is finally out.https:/...
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Won a bid on e-bay. Liens?
Tried to do a title search but its a small city and not such info online.
Tsunami hit Cresent City and this lot is there.
Never purchased property from BK trustee and i am afraid after payment i can inherit some IRS a...
Mark Perea
First Deal is the hardest
Everyone has said your first deal is your hardest and everyone is correct. So far I have to give two pints of blood, sign over my first born, and show my kindergarten report card. I felt like I have ran my tail off to...
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Are Rents Rises Dropping? Funny You Should Ask . . .
If you are planning on holding that property and collecting rents, be sure you plan ahead.Single-family rents, as measured by the CoreLogic Single-Family Repeat Rent Index (SFRI), climbed steadily between 2010 and 20...
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I'm getting business funding with no out of pocket expenses
I seem to always say the wrong thing in my post, and they remove it, and I cannot login. I couldn't think about real estate without thinking of money, but I can't talk about funding apparently. Makes no sense to me. I...
Joshua Dorkin
Some Great Recent Press for BiggerPockets.com
BiggerPockets continues to attract the attention of the press, and I thought I'd share a few recent mentions (all have come since the end of December). The following articles that I was interviewed for are now live:
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SUB PRIME losses So FAR
MAIN SUB-PRIME LOSSES SO FAR
Merrill Lynch: $22.1bn
Citigroup: $18bn
UBS: $13.5bn
Morgan Stanley $9.4bn
HSBC: $3.4bn
Bear Stearns: $3.2bn
Deutsche Bank: $3.2bn
Bank of America: $3bn
Barclays: $2.6bn
Royal Bank of Scot...