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Melissa Sejour How do you research the best areas to invest in?
6 February 2025 | 12 replies

I am new to the real estate investing space and was wondering how do you go about researching the best areas to purchase properties? Also if you have any areas you recommend and why I appreciate that. Thanks in advance! 

Adam Pervez Investing out of New Jersey
15 November 2022 | 15 replies

Hi All,
I am interested to know which cities have been good areas for investment. I have heard that Columbus, Indianapolis, and a lot of the states in the Central Region have been good areas to invest in. I am lookin...

J. Martin Recession & Job Loss Predictor: Leads by 2.5 years!!
9 March 2016 | 28 replies

As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...

James Park The U.S. Dollar, 5 year ARM vs 30 year conventional & the snow ball effect.
18 February 2014 | 6 replies

I've been reading @Mark Ferguson's website and been thinking about his loan strategy of taking out 5 year ARMs and focusing on paying off the mortgage within 5 years. I know other buy and hold investors in Bigg...

Brie Schmidt Will there be another recession?
19 March 2018 | 62 replies

Are we going to have a recession this year?  Historically, every time we see low unemployment it is followed by a recessionNow we hit a 17 year low for unemployment rate, so what does that mean?So will it happen?  Wha...

Scott Trench Bold Prediction: The Fed WILL Do a 25+ BPS Cut... But RE Borrowing Rates Will Rise
17 December 2024 | 20 replies

Ready for some nerdery? 
I believe that the Federal Reserve is going to cut rates by 25-50 bps at it's September meeting (no emergency cut), but that 30-year fixed rate mortgage rates will rise to upper 6s low 7s aro...

Lloyd Segal Economic Update (Monday, June 14, 2021)
14 June 2021 | 0 replies

Economic Update
(Monday, June 14, 2021)
For a period of time between 2018 and the beginning of 2020, the “Real House Price Index” (which calculates inflation in the Housing Sector) was falling, because Americans’ bu...

Paul Finnemore How to Estimate Tenant Turnover and ROI in a Rent-Control Market
21 November 2021 | 1 reply

Hi Folks! We live and invest in Nova Scotia, Canada. We started 3.5 years ago and have done fairly well. When we started there was no annual rent control. This just changed last year and we now face a rent increase ca...

Christopher Cruz IR Risk on MF CF
18 January 2013 | 3 replies

A few of you may have read that I'm on the prowl for my first investment inreal estate. I'm patient and have no problem waiting for the perfect property.

However...

In the later half of 2013, once Bernanke is no lon...

John Warren Go small or go big?
10 July 2015 | 9 replies

Hi everyone,I have done a ton of reading on buying both 2-4 unit properties and I have also done a good amount of research on buying apartment buildings. I believe that the larger apartment buildings is where I want t...