Kyle Doney
New company offers flat fees for selling homes
Interesting read about Denver company Trelora, trying to take down the commission structure in Real Estate. Seems like agents are up in arms over this. Article below.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_244...
Paul Beauchemin
Gold is up...will RE follow?
Gold broke the $1000 an ounce barrier last week and is zooming up over $1100 as I write this. It seems to me that the money that the Fed's loose monetary policy is going to come home to roost. If I recall the 1970's a...
Jonathan Miranda
what kind of property damage should I absolutely avoid
Hello! I am just starting my plan on getting my first investment property this year. If any of you could help me determine what kind of property damage I should avoid either because it costs too much to fix or it is j...
Ben Clinger
Typical cost to obtain a lead safe cerficate
The city of Toledo, OH is proposing a new "lead safe" ordinance which would affect rental properties with 4 or fewer units.Proponents of the bill are expecting about a $50 / year cost per unit per year ($150 for dust ...
Arthur Mayer
Renting individual rooms vs entire home
Hello all, I'm a contractor looking at land for sale, and I found one where I can build a SFR house 4 beds/3 bath and an Accessory Dwelling Unit in the back. I wanted to hold it for cashflow, and I wanted to ask some...
Scott Szurek
PMI on less than 20% down, but LTCV >20% with appraisal
Why does the consumer (loan holder) still have to pay PMI when the property's LTCV is 20% or greater after the appraisal needed for the loan. I bought a property for $210,000 and only put 10% down. It appraised for ...
Daren H.
Why do most describe rising house prices as “Appreciation”?
Why aren’t rising house prices described as Inflation? Inflation is generally looked at as a bad thing. Appreciation of home prices is viewed as a good thing. If I am a homebuyer buying today as opposed to 8 years ago...
Richard Libutti
Creativity -- helping or hurting the market?
Hey there, I will keep things short and simple, but I will introduce myself and pose an open-ended question with some color as I am genuinely interested in feedback. My name is Richard, I am an owner/operator of a mos...
Ronald Rohde
Austin can DEFINITELY grow for the next 5-7 years
https://austonia.com/spacex-st...Between Tesla, SpaceX, other tech companies. Austin is going to attract the main talent even if the manufacturing occurs outside the city. We just had a good post wondering if prices c...
Roselin G.
Walk away and jump in?
Hello all,Those of you who are in real estate full time now and left your w-2:Looking back, would you have left w2 earlier (assuming income wasn't an issue)I have a well paying W2 job but its very time consuming/deman...