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Bryan Hancock Strategic Default or Efficient Breach?
17 February 2012 | 82 replies

I read the following article tonight:

Strategic Default or Efficient Breach?

that speaks about the supposed "moral obligation" to continue making payments on an underwater mortgage. The article generally jives wi...

John Jackson Was this mortgage fraud?
7 September 2019 | 130 replies

A person owns a home in Washington, DC and has a mortgage on it. They relocate to Massachusetts. One month later, they refinance the DC home and get a new mortgage, claiming the DC property is still their primary re...

Tommy Martinez Serious Question! Not ment to offend anyone!
19 May 2017 | 70 replies

Hello,So I'm still very much a newbie and this is probably a newbie question. I don't mean to offend anyone but I figured I'd atleast ask Why do Guru's or the Experienced Investors waste there time with Investor clubs...

Jason Mathews Having Diarrhea - What's that got to do with REI??
21 November 2010 | 30 replies

Does having diarrhea make one an Expert on Toilets?

Just because one investor, in one part of the country, during a specific time period, uses a specific technique (s) to make money in real estate, does not make him...

Peter Tverdov Why commercial over residential?
11 January 2017 | 66 replies

I have an opportunity approaching in 2017 to buy a small MXU building ($500-$600k). I am running the numbers and between the high insurance rate and the much higher interest rates with shorter amortization schedules, ...

Joshua Aycock Article: A thought experiment - Real Estate vs S&P500
11 September 2022 | 23 replies

AND imagine the real estate is NOT cash flow positive. Consider the ‘negative cash flow’ as simply additional reinvestment…just like the S&P.
I am all about building cash flow over time through real estate. Howev...

Rich Weese financial cliff, financial crisis, Aftershock
28 September 2012 | 51 replies

The basic information for this post has come from the book Aftershock written by David Wiedemer and Robert Wiedemer with the assistance of Cindy Spitzer. These are the same authors that four years ago wrote America's ...

John Thedford Why YOU Should Become A Hard Money Lender
8 September 2019 | 59 replies

Why YOU should become a hard money lender:1. VERY limited risk if you underwrite properly2. returns up to 60% per anum or more3. easy easy investment--just collect mailbox money4. much LESS work than being a landlord5...

Joseph Barbaretta How much to give a GC upfront?
30 November 2015 | 79 replies

I've got a property that requires a pretty major rehab (asbestos siding, and needs new electrical, plumbing, HVAC, walls ....).  I have a general contractor that I think will do a good job.  I wanted to do the work as...

Jill Thomas Feedback on RentToRetirement and Zach Lemaster
25 April 2024 | 82 replies

We're just starting to look at out-of-state investment options, turnkey providers being one choice, and I am wondering if anyone has had any recent experience they'd like to share about Zach Lemaster and his company, ...