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Hello BP community!First post after reading many informative and useful threads; excited to be here! Thought it was about time to take action, get off the reading bench and ask for some advice/guidance. So here it goe...
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Hi, I am sending an offer for a condo in Florida. I am not using a buyer's agent due to pretty bad experiences so far. The listing agent asked me to sign a transaction broker agreement with his firm that includes a co...
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I have an odd question, hopefully some one knows the answer. Purchase and Sale agreement, buyer is to pay all closing cost. No title company, no attorney, no realtor. The buyer placed the earnest deposit into an overs...
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Hello... Here is the story..
I bought my first home at a foreclosure auction 1/6/14.. And there people living there. I have been keeping track of the court dates.. and at our last court date on 1/21/14 was t...
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I figure this is as good of place as any to ask this question. Is there any benefit or downside to buying through an agent or the owner?I have been looking at properties on various sites and have noticed that when on...
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When a house is listed as "foreclosure" on MLS, what exactly does it mean? The other categories include "short sale", "pre-foreclosure", and "REO", so they are not referring to the same type of listings. And almost 8...
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Very new to real estate sales (and a year in to Alaska) but used to do residential home inspections. Before that I was a builders assistant and property manager (small operation).I’m questioning if I may have jumped i...
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I am just starting out as a real estate investor in Colorado, I've been focusing on the educating myself currently and it dawned on me that taking some real-estate courses and possibly getting my license may benefit ...
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Hello! I am very new to the concept of wholesaling and have no real estate background. My initial goal was to buy and flip homes since I love renovating but then came across wholesaling and would like to try to go thr...
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Hello Group. Names Jose, a 23 year old lost in the path to become an investor. Live in Monterey, California. Just listened to my first ever podcast #222 Jay Hinrichs, an investor and hard money lender, It really inspi...