Many say grit and persistence keeps us going. @Engelo Rumora  reminds us to be willing to keep going when you don't think you can keep going any longer. And I've learned that its about the relationships that you build...

I was once a buy and hold investor. Then one day, my light was turned off by the power company, in the house I lived in.How could that happen? I had 40 houses, but I was always robbing Peter to pay Paul. Edison, the p...

Got an offer in an REO. It sat there for over 2 months but at a pretty good price so we put an offer in at asking. Suddenly, according to LA, there were other offers coming in so we put in a "highest and best" offer. ...

I've been reading through the forums here and I've read a lot of posts about how the tenants should have the money saved up to pay rent in an emergency, and if not they should use a credit card or the money in their r...

After my most recent post on Realtor.com projecting Stockton to be the #4 metro market in the nation in 2018, I've received the same question over and over and over again:"But WHY Stockton? What's so great about it? A...

I'm a licensed MA RE Sales Agent. I received my RE Agent license in February and worked for a RE brokerage in Cambridge - leasing rental properties. We used open leads from YGL and posted ads to Craigslist, Zillow,...

I’d like to start a new kind of real estate brokerage. It would dually represent buyers and sellers and charge a total commission of no more than 0.6%. Instead of depending on buyer agents to drive prospects from hous...

One funny thing about people is that while we are almost always well intentioned, we seem to do a lot of things that are just plain crazy. I, for example, still prefer to eat my oranges by dissecting each into their i...

Im sure many of us have read all the warnings and reviews of buying low price properties, and the problems typically associated with them, but all that considered, it is what first attracts a lot of people , indeed th...

Hey folks I was just about 2 weeks from close on a SFR townhouse in my hometown.   Unfortunately we learn via a MLS omission by the listing agent that the property was actually a condo and has an high HOA fee for the ...