You might have heard this one before... A small town in a beautiful location, with an under priced real estate market, gets swamped by investors who bought up all the property to rent to tourists. Sound familiar? It i...

Me and my wife are planning to purchase her mom's house. She used to live in the house and now lives with us for about 2 years now so the property still qualifies as primary residence. She is open to seller financing ...

I am new to real estate but looking to dive in deep. One of my business partners lives in Orange County and I will be moving in the next 2 months into an apartment, so Orange County is where I will have to be due to m...

First of all I made a mistake in my Dow figures yesterday it should have been the lowest since 1997 not 2002.

The day after Oblama sent the Dow to its worst showing since 1997 Bernanke said t...

I have interest in starting a real estate holding or investing company where its ultimate goal will be to invest in long term multifamily commercial type properties.
The properties will be acquired for their income ...

I am very happy I to have found this forum of excellent minded peeps. I have been appraising for a while and I'm ready for something different. I have been here browsing for a few weeks to get my feet wet. Instead of ...

In 2007, a partner and I decided to try flipping a house for quick profit (It was worst timing ever!)At the time, the purchase price = 290k, rehab = 10k, and then thinking we can flip the house for 340k. The house was...

My daughter is starting a 5 year graduate school program for which she will be paid a decent amount as a graduate research assistant.  I am considering helping her buy a house (we will both be on the loan and title) i...

Just found out that assumable loans are a thing for VA loans. My next military assignment is to Del Rio TX and I'd like to get take advantage of the assumable loan. But despite it being a small town with a proportiona...

1) Can anyone recommend an accountant in Des Moines area that they use and specialize in real estate?2) Regarding mileage. Lets say I'm going to Ankeny for dinner, its about 30 miles round trip for me. If I look up a ...