Not really treading any new ground here, but interesting read in the WSJ this morning.  http://www.wsj.com/articles/surge-in-commercial-re...We've got a number of clients active in South Florida (Miami) and they (and ...

Hello BP! :)Just closed, with a group of investors and myself, on a 50+ unit apartment building.We have to rehab the whole thing over the next 18 months and my GC and I have a small bet on the counter-tops.I believe t...

"Oh, THAT neighborhood? It's definitely going to be the next Lawrenceville."
I hear this said ALL. THE. TIME. And yet somehow it always seems to be a different neighborhood. Sure there's some overlap in answers. But ...

His exact words....'Don't F@#$*&G do it!!!!!!'.  I am very confused now.  I have been researching/reading books, blogs, podcasts, anything I can find about real estate investing over the last month or so, trying t...

@J Scott inspired me with his diary of a new construction project to do one of my own.  So not to be outdone, I'm actually going to do two.  This one will be for a project that we have recently completed.  I'll add ne...

Hi AllConventional loans for residential property cover single family, duplex, triplex or fourplex. If I want to maximise each available loan without going into jumbo loan territory ($424k limit) it would be ideal to ...

I have been researching real estate cycles and found real estate economist Homer Hoyt theory of 18 year real estate cycle in the 1930's. In the early 90's economist Fred E. Foldvary predicted the real estate crash in ...

In my humble opinion, the bubble has started to burst and many of us including myself are still in denial. The national median home value is now $217,300, an increase of 8.3% on the year and 8.4% above the bubble-era...

Hi BP community, Please keep reading through this intro to get to the guts of my question.I have decide that I am going to purchase my first multi family property. I purchased my first home in 2012 and held for 8 year...

I'm a 29 year old American living in California (Silicon Valley) with $500k in cash.
Due to religious reasons, I cannot use leverage (i.e. bank loans), so my investments need to be all cash.
I need to invest this mo...