Ray Shum
Tenant Screening from out of the country
I have a prospective tenant that is from the UK. All the standard online tenant screening services I know of are only good for people with history in the US. What do you recommend I do to properly screen this tenant?I...
Manuel Angeles
Market Report: Retail in Los Angeles County, CA as of July 1, 2024
Market OverviewThe Los Angeles retail market showed signs of stability in Q1 2024, with asking rents holding steady at $34.21 per square foot and vacancy rates remaining unchanged at 8.1%. The market absorbed -19,00...
Eric L.
Credit reports/scores to exclude tax liens and civil judgements
Market Watch StoryMany tax liens and civil judgments soon will be removed from people’s credit reports, the latest in a series of moves to omit negative information from these financial scorecards. The development cou...
Annette Hibbler
What's Your VantageScore
I recently heard about VantageScoring and did some research. Thought I'd share what I found here with all of you.
What's Your VantageScore?
Since the 1970’s credit bureaus have used FICO scoring as the main model...
Robert Blocker
Text Messaging Sellers
So I use Simple text and I have an account to send out over 25,000 text messages with roll over a month. The only problem is it is hard to pull BIG BIG list of data. I find myself sending out atleast 500-800 messages ...
Douglas Gratz
Help? My Agent never gave me consumer notice, am I entitled to keep the commission?
Hello friends,I am selling a piece of land, its under agreement and closing is in a few days. I have been wanted to fire my agent for a long while but I had no grounds, I just found out he never gave me the consumer n...
Brian Diez
"Operation Clean Sweep"
I'm new to this forum, but hope to add value since my area of expertise (credit repair) benefits real estate investors and seems to be neglected in this community.
On October 23rd, the Federal...
Corey Dutton
Private Equity Lines Up to Buy Crowd Funding Debt
Private equity is starting to pay attention to this ever growing trend in private money lending of raising capital via crowdfunding platforms, also called peer-to-peer lending (P2P Lending). For those who still don’t ...
Josh E.
Will the Federal Reserve ever raise interest rates?
For the last year or so people have been talking about a "rising rate environment." Granted, rates were rising towards the end of last year, but the Fed has clearly reversed course on tapering.I don't believe the Fed ...
Logan Causey
Yield Curve Inversion, Buyers market around the corner?
I'm curious to know how many investors have been waiting and preparing for this time to come, I personally believe what's coming is going to be worse than '08 and would like to know the thoughts of more experienced in...