Hi I was wondering if anyone knows the little Haiti areaI have the opportunity to buy a $1.4-1.5m 8 unit property but I don’t know the area that we’ll and have never been
Any locals know this area well or if this is ...

Market Vertigo
by Cliff Draughn

"We give you a Republic; now see if you can keep it." -- Ben Franklin

As I have remarked in prior calendar-turning newsletters, it is this time of the year when most people pause ...

I saw an Year end report that talks about negative net migration trend in cook county and especially in the city of Chicago. I’m curious how investors take these numbers. I see such articles on negative net migration...

since many cities are facing Gentrification I was wondering are there any signs a neighborhood or city is about to gentrify? What is the best time to invest in Gentrification post/mid/pre Gentrification? As a wholesal...

Hello everyone,
I'm in the process of deciding the best course of action for selling my property, and I could use your collective wisdom or experiences on this matter. I own four adjoining vacant lots, each approxima...

Hi, nice to meet all of you that I will be learning from here. I've been trying to read before I opened my mouth in the forums, but it seems like there were a lot of locals willing to help answer each other's question...

Hey everyone. I am 20 years old and currently live in the mid west. I live at home and don’t really have any bills and right now have saved up a little over $20,000. I wanted to get to $30,000 before starting my home ...

My wife and I are planning on house hacking a duplex property. When it comes to covering the mortgage, the property would do just that. When we ran the numbers, the insurance, vacancy, repairs, property tax, and any o...

So, I'm currently browsing all the easy listing engines, zillow, realtor, the rest, trying to get a feel for what's available, what things are priced at etc... and simultaneously bouncing that off an interesting re...

Hey BG community,It's that time of the year again for taxes! Since I only had a W-2 and one rental property income, so it looked straight forward enough to do it all by myself on TurboTax, right? By pure procrastinati...