Joshua Dorkin
News Corp to Acquire Move for $950 Million
After the Trulia / Zillow merger announcement of a few months back, this one is easily the second most significant in real estate this year.In push to diversify, News Corp. buying Move for $950 millionWhat implication...
James Marszalek
RE Investing Boils Down to 4 Steps
1. Generate Leads2. Analyze Deals3. Make Offers4. Rinse and RepeatThese are the only tasks that designate a Real Estate Investor. If you aren't doing these things, I'd argue you aren't an investor yet. Seems simple th...
Nicky Venditti
Inheriting a tenant paying under market value
I'm in contract for my first rental property in the Buffalo area and will be inheriting a tenant who is currently paying way under market value. Property is a side by side duplex (each unit is 900sq ft, 2bdrm/ 1ba) On...
April Robbins
Pay off line of credit or reinvest
I have 4 rentals bringing in $2000 month cash flow. Only debt is line credit at bank for $9500 at 12% interest. My husband had a new business do bad and we have 55k in credit card bills at 21% eating us alive. Should ...
N M Clarke
Rental Reduction Requests: CALIFORNIA
One of my market rate units has asked for a -15% monthly reduction. The press out there has been brutal about how much vacancy and drops in rent, which include a lot of new developments downtown that were super high a...
Reggie Maggard
Partnerships and joint ventures
I’m looking to do partnerships in which I have control and give returns to investors. But my real estate strategy is to use it in the buy and hold space. So here is what I’m thinking...if I buy a fourplex for 250k, t...
Joshua Shull
SFH - Is this a good deal?
Getting ready to put my first offer in for a 3 bed 1 bath C SFH in a B/B+ neighborhood. My spouse and investment partner are getting cold feet (probably just nerves with the first deal). I’ve run my own numbers and a...
Matt Whiteside
Bank Won't sell to an Investor.
Had a deal to do a short sale with HSBC as the lender, When they found out I was an investor they wanted me to change the contract into my own name and then resubmitted. I did it, then they said that because I was goi...
Matthew Kabernagel
Moving to Monterey California
Hey everyone!I’ll be stationed in Monterey California in about 6 months. My real estate investment goals are to buy a single family home in each of my duty stations while active duty with the intention of renting once...
Ben Leary
First OOI in a few months! Any tips?
Hello! I am 23 years old and decided to invest in real estate about 6 months ago. I am invested in the stock market and was able to use my mother as a mentor but have no such help when it comes to real estate. Which i...