I'd like your opinion on a matter.  Myself and 2 of my business partners/friends are first time home buyers looking to purchase in a hot market in CA.  There is a house we like and offers were due yesterday.  List pri...

I am working with two agents who showed me a bunch of MFH properties: mostly duplexes, some 4plexes. One in UW, many in Greenlake, some in Cap Hill/First Hill and a couple in West Seattle. My plan is to house-hack wit...

I hate everything about the phrase "house hacking". EVERYTHING! The term "house hacking', in my opinion, is derived from the internet culture of hackers; hackers hack websites in order to gain unfair advantages. The s...

A lot of these how-to guys seem to be not really liked much by investors I have noticed. 

Do rental rates usually fall when interest rates increase and home values decrease?

How many of you are aware of your personal balance sheet? While, I don't worry about pennies, I do track my balance sheet.

A personal balance sheet is slightly different than a business balance sheet.

Major Elemen...

@Joshua Dorkin , I wanted to ask if you could put together something structured (podcast, extended thread, book, etc) about the 07-08 real estate crash. A lot of us got burned badly during that time so it would b...

Hi everyone,

I listened to a webinar the other day that had an interesting idea. They called it residential backflipping. I'll try to lay out the basics from that webinar here (this is what Peter Conti and Jerry Nort...

I'm trying to analyze a triplex that's for sale, but the units are fully rented out and the owner wants a written (and accepted) offer BEFORE scheduling a time to see inside. He then said, to go inside I need an "insu...

I am currently selling my house, and I have a 5% commission on it.  My realtor says that maybe I am not getting as many people coming or an offer because of my commission percentage.  In you experience, do you think i...