Wow! Where to begin!?!A quick background on how I got involved in real estate investing.  I started a new job a couple years ago.  About a year in, my boss asked me if I was interested in retiring in 10 year.  I obvio...

Hi All,I’ve been in the waterpoofing business for over 12 years and have been reading up a lot lately about REI. I live in Bay Area (Northern California) and planning on starting my real estate investment portfolio. C...

Forgive me if this is not the correct place to post this. I have had this idea for a long time to buy a large parcel of land and rent spaces to people with tiny homes. Most of these tiny homes have composting toilets ...

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- no assets
- no liabilities
- $10,000 in your bank account 
- $20 minimum wage 9 - 5 job 
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- connections already established with vendors, education, lenders, and...

I understand that finding the "perfect" buy & hold property is rare. I understand the concept of analysis paralysis. I even have a quote sitting on my desk right now that says "Every successful man I have heard of...

I'd love to hear from people who have jobs on this. How many houses, or units do you feel you can handle? Some of this depends on how flexible your job is of course. I'd love to know how close people feel they can get...

Hi, I’ve been analyzing dozens of properties in two particular markets I’m interested in. I’m ready to get off the sidelines but I keep running into some obstacles. First the local housing market is booming and due to...

We're newbies...go easy! :D

We're about to buy our first investment property, a duplex with excellent income. It has been on the market for 200+ days.

We're making an offer soon. Is there a rule-of-thumb for t...

I always wanted to do a "deal diary" and now I have the chance to do one!  This will be my 13th property acquisition and so I'm hoping to make it lucky number 13!A 3-bedroom, 1.5 bathroom 1,054 square foot townhouse c...

We're kicking off a new project in the next week or so and it's been pretty crazy just getting to this point. The house is a 3-story, 1550 sq ft row and it's currently 3br and 1 bath. We've owned it for almost 2 month...