My wife and I both work and have no kids. We live in Seattle, Washington, where the market is really hot right now. We started looking for our own place back in October, but have yet to land anything. We've put in som...

You have to take this post with a grain of salt but I have a lot of people that ask me where I buy and where I don't buy.
For the most part, I invest in Red states, meaning states that tend to vote for Republican can...

NYTimes asks has home buying and how home buyers look at buying fundamentally changed?  Austin and Austin home buyers were profiled in this Sundays NYTimes article.  I can't post the link but there is a paywall anyway...

I am reading headlines about the market plunging worldwide due to the likelihood of a Trump win.  What could this mean for real estate?  Is anyone holding off on buying until things settle down a bit?  Any reason to b...

My goal is to get a conventional loan to buy and hold a single family rental to generate a positive cash flow. I am looking for a rule-of-thumb or general advice, not specific to my situation because there are so many...

I'm curious to know especially how the last 20 or 30 points were obtained.  If there was any advice you could pass along that would be useful to others.   I have good credit in the 770s but I would like to get it over...

No, not selling timeshares. A real question about them. I've never seriously considered timeshares. I've worked hard in numerous places to avoid timeshare salesmen. Amazingly, the same techniques that work with be...

With the interest rates going up, we're basically starting to move into another bust cycle. And so we're coming out of a boom period where a lot of money has been printed, lent into the economy. Plus we had the lockdo...

Asking directly to those who have owned 10+ properties before, thanks in advance to those who answer or tag those who can.One of my good childhood mentors and his wife built up a nice portfolio of 30+ homes in a secon...

A couple of things to get out of the way before you read the rest of my layout. Yes: I can save 70% of my gross income. I’m a minimalist and I require very very little to survive. No: I’m not planning on having a fami...