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Hi,I've had this idea for a while now, just looking for feedback-advice-thoughts.Live in a mid sized city in the Southeast. I guess we are a "regional" destination for many services and businesses, including an area ...
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For those of you using outside PM, do you have a clean or automated solution for aggregating your PM books with the stuff you pay for yourself (insurance, taxes, mortgage payment, admin costs, materials, travel, etc)?...
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I thought this would be an interesting question for people to weigh in on:
For residential properties, do you prefer an HOA with a fair fee ($100/mo.) or would you prefer no HOA?
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Hi, all!I'm thinking of pulling the trigger on a rehab in Kansas City. The repairs seem straightforward enough, but there are some red flags that I'd like to have looked at by a professional (or three, lol) to ease m...
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We recently bought a property that we have found out within the first few weeks of owning it that is has VERY SERIOUS drainage and humidity issues and lots of previous water damage that the sellers did not disclose. M...
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I just bought a house in the Chicago area and the good news is that it doesn't have any structural or foundation damage and from two people who saw it, so far nothing major, but pretty much every room needs work. ...
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IN the Marine Corps I studied what is called Combat Hunter. We took hours of classes on how to identify human existence while patrolling though rural terrain.
We learned how to identify many things about t...
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My wife and I have been floating around the edges of real estate investing for the past couple of years. We started by joining a real estate mentorship group in early 2013 and starting to absorb as much information as...
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Hello expert advisors, I have a 3 family home in Union City NJ and have a very crafty tenants. They moved in in November 2020 and since then have never been able to pay rent. However, they have received multiple forms...
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Hi all.
I've been reading a lot lately about institutional REITs and came across this article today: Starwood Waypoint Rises in First Day of Trading as a REIT (Bloomberg).
"Corporate landlords hav...