My cousin and I are trying to build a rental portfolio in Houston. He's currently a licensed agent and I'm in the process of getting mine. During the entire process, I've been doing most of the analysis but he's the o...

Is there any advantage to going directly to listing agent (i.e. not using a buyer's agent) on a short sale that's listed on MLS, if the agent is a transaction broker? I was thinking it might be possible to get the age...

I'll be selling my own investment property for $245k. I'm the agent representing both sides. My capital gains will be about $150k.I'm thinking about raising my realtor fees (ie 10%-20%) in order to lower my capital ga...

I have begun searching many avenues to find property deals in my area.   I have been working with different wholesalers and real estate agents.   Looks like I may have a potential property found by one of my real esta...

 So a number of years ago, I obtained my license to sell health and life insurance. I work for AFLAC for a time and it was a whole lot of door knocking.  basically  prospecting. Later I worked for another company and ...

Hi BP community,Up to this point, I've been live-in flipping. My wife and I are planning to rent our first property and we plan on owning it as individuals (with lots of insurance of course). For all rental related ex...

Hello, Newer Realtor here. I currently have a listing and a buyer came to me with no agent asking if I'd represent him if I were to give him a 1% credit of my commission. CA commission is 5% total, 2.5% per side. He t...

I’m considering hiring a comission only employee and wanted feedback from anyone else who has done this?  What type of pay structure did you set up?  How difficult was it to find someone?  Any other details would be g...

Are they likely to accept less on a cash offer? Ive purchased some HUDs in the past but always dealt with financing. I hear a lot of foks say they will accept 85% of asking price pretty often. Would I be better to go ...

Maryland1- I ended the listing agreement with my agent. I sent an email and he acknowledged that the listing has been removed from MLS and that the listing agreement has been terminated…Looking at the listing agreemen...