Hello everyone,I'm considering leaving my company and going independent as a Financial Advisor. With experience as a Mortgage Banker in my past, I naturally have real estate conversations with my clients and think I ...

Hello.  I would like to pose a question relating to the tax treatment of Loans made though any of the leading Real Estate Crowdfunding Portals that go into Default.Many of the CF sites may reasonably be expected to ev...

Hello,I'm a newer investor and went down to Cook County RofD and Treasurer office (on clark in the loop) to get eviction, water shutoff and property tax delinquency listing. I started at the FOIA office and was shuffl...

I have been researching buying notes. It is so much to digest that I am not sure where to start. From what I can see the best notes to purchase are performing (if you want to earn mailbox revenue). However I am lookin...

The concepts and challenges of community property are not well understood and result in confusion and planning errors. Nine states are known as community property states and the others are not. I am only familiar wit...

Hi all,

In what form do you accept a buyer's earnest money deposit? I've heard of some investors who only accept a cashier's check and others who will take a money order for EM.

If you are in the cashier's-check-on...

One brokerage I'm looking at has zero deductible which is important to me but I fear there fees are too high (200 with E&O). I can't any info on Keller Williams's E&O or what there desk fees include and the...

hey all, first time poster. I have been a homeowner for years now, however recent events has forced my family to mive to a duplex. Nice place, and were fortunate to find it in short notice.

Lease agreement st...

I recently watched a bigger pockets podcast that hosted a guy who bought 3bed/2bath, yr 2000 built properties for 80k cash and rented them for 1,000$+ that weren't in awful neighborhoods. I'm assuming this is fairly r...

Would you rent to a prospective tenant who has a history of late payments?  From the landlord reference, I discovered that he made 3 late payments in the past year.  Each late payment was collected within 1-3 days (af...