The August 2019 Central Texas Housing Market Report is out from the Austin Board of REALTORS (ABoR). The close of August marked the end of the summer "selling season" in Austin. Area home sales continued to increase d...

I come from a background in single family residential new construction.  We typically use a metric called Months of Inventory to forecast demand for product in a certain price segment in a certain area.  History has t...

Hi Everybody, I'm absolutely new to real estate investing and considering OOS investment in Atlanta, GA (currently live in CA). I plan on long term buy and hold and was hoping to better understand what sorts of proper...

Hello all, I recently was approached by a friend who is interested in purchasing his 3rd fourplex. He needs some hard money to get into the property. What is a typical strategy when providing hard money for a down pay...

I've got a question about appliances. I'm getting my first property ready for rental in the Houston area, and a contractor who works with a lot of investors told me that I didn't need to put in a refrigerator. He said...

Is anyone using a good inventory management system to track supplies in your STR?  Admittedly I am a tracker and love to analyze mundane things like burn down rates to predict when I need to bring more supplies to the...

When do I know it’s a sellers market / buyers market? How can I learn about the market I am in? 

I'm looking to invest in a supply constrained, rent controlled area with good rent growth (eg, most major west coast cities). I know in many non-rent controlled (or over-supplied) markets investors typically prefer lo...

Im just curious on which store you all use for your rental property material and why and what you buy there?

For me it is a combination of the two.

Homedepot:
For paint I use Kilz Pro-X dead flat, all fans and light...

I have a question regarding smaller items in rental properties, such as pillows, door mats, small floor mats, bed covers, etc. To make the answers unbiased for either side, I would like to ask this question both as a ...