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April L. I'm Doing All the Work. Is This Typical with a Real Estate Agent?
8 August 2022 | 62 replies

I've been working with an agent for a few months now to buy my first STR property in the North Georgia mountains, but it feels like I'm doing all the work. She has me on an email drip but the criteria stinks and I can...

Robert Frazier The morality of short term rentals
2 June 2022 | 114 replies

This is just a question I’ve been wondering as we deal with a huge housing crisis in our city.is it moral to convert properties to short term rentals in a city with a deep housing crisis?if a city has 500 units conver...

Account Closed Using NPV for real estate investments
13 January 2020 | 48 replies

I like to use Net Present Value when evaluating deals, but I don't see it a lot on this forum or other real estate evaluations. Can anyone shed some light on why not to use it?

Jay Hinrichs How important are sales skills to the investor
31 August 2014 | 61 replies

We see much discussion on how to find deals and buy deals. However not much is mentioned about how to handle the leads when you get them or HOW to CLOSE a deal.A great closer will out perform someone with superior kno...

Jason Ling Machine learning and Real Estate Investing
2 August 2021 | 68 replies

Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...

Tyler C. The struggle is real...
23 March 2018 | 38 replies

Hi! I’m a recent grad (kinda-c/o2016) & I want to buy a duplex in Milwaukee,WI. My plan is to rent out one unit and live in the other. Between student loans, bills and just adulting, it would take me years to comf...

Joey Nakayama Move-in fee v. security deposit
29 July 2017 | 55 replies

As a Chicago landlord, I've noticed many local apartment listings that ask for a non-refundable move-in fee instead of a security deposit. I suspect this is partially due to Chicago's strict laws regarding security...

Account Closed investing in low income strategy?
24 May 2017 | 30 replies

hello everyone, I'm a newbie looking into my first investment. I currently have been centering my search in more middle class areas, but the prices are a bit high. my question is this. how is it going into low income ...

Greg P. How can you double your Money without Flipping Houses
31 May 2012 | 47 replies

Hello, I've been fortunate enough to be doubling my money in the past couple of years by flipping (wholesaling/retailing), but is there any other way in real estate you could do this? Also, how about stocks or someth...

Cheryle Patterson Tenant installed window AC in utitlies furnished rental
25 August 2017 | 44 replies

I have owned a 16 furnished room (dorm style) rental property for 14 years and never had a tenant do this.  We rent the rooms for $395 per month and it includes power, water, sewer and garbage service. We keep the A/C...