Amanda Finney
Ready to make my first move!
Hello all, I am new to real estate investing and I have gotten all the knowledge I believe I can get at this point. I am ready to put my first house under contract and get the ball rolling. I am very open to advice an...
Michael Sager
What's the best maintenance solution?
Hello,Currently interested in understanding what the best maintenance strategy would be for my situation. To give some background, my family owns a 52-unit, 14 story apartment building on the north side of Chicago. We...
Ken P.
View from eviction court
Kevin Williamson usually writes about politics, but wrote this article recently after spending time in court evicting a non-paying tenant. I enjoyed his observations and musings on the lives and situations of some of ...
Janice Traub
Pending Divorce & Upside Down VA Loan
HOW CAN I STRUCTURE A DEAL?This is ridiculously sensitive as I just...literally 5 min ago, learned that a good friend will be divorcing after 12 years of marriage. I was the selling agent on the property which was pu...
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Real Estate Financial Model - Product Development
I have created several real estate financial models of varying degrees of complexity for real estate investors. There seems to be a need for this service as the models they were previously working with were very un...
Jennifer Stanovich
1031 exchange to land that will become “B&B” type rental
I am not a real estate investor but my husband and I own a duplex worth about $300k with 100% equity that he’s owned for 25 years and a residence worth about $450k with 100% equity that we’ve owned for 18 years. We w...
Isaac Antoine
Buy & Hold hard money Financing Warnings
hello fellow Real Estate Investors, I am currently working on a deal for 3 duplexes & wanted to go the hard money route. Is it possible to get a hard money lender to acquire the properties then refi (there is a go...
Arkadiy Iliyayev
Trump Presidency: What impact on McAllen, TX & other Border Towns - Rio Grande Valley
I am in the middle of closing on a mid-sized apartment deal in Mcallen, Texas. Now that Trump won the election, I wanted to get a discussion going about what potential impact this could have on towns along the Rio Gra...
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Why do investors opt to rent instead of flip?
Hi all,I have watched countless videos on real estate investing. Some investors are all about buying “doors” to rent. Then there are the flippers and developers. Please help me understand why, besides getting monthly ...
Shaun Allison
Private Money with Self Directed
I have someone that is wanting to invest in my company. They want to roll their retirement over to a Self Directed and we need advice. They were recommended by their financial advisor to talk to Pensco and so far they...