Larry Marshall
When you started, were you like “good lord this is too much!”
I’m in year 1—I have been eyeballing RE for years though. I have recently been reading a RE book every 7-10 days and man, have you ever been like “THIS IS A LOT OF INFO!!”I want to do this, and I do believe RE can and...
Rishit Shah
California housing subsidy - boon or a curse?
In a rush? Checkout TLDR below.
I recently came across this article where I read about California's proposed subsidy for housing purchase. https://www.businessinsider.com/california-dream-for-all-program-senate-democ...
J. Martin
Home Price Increases - Truth or Myth? Input from flippers?
As I hear day after day about rising prices and the biggest jump in real estate price indeces since 2006, I wonder how much of the measured increase is not actually due to an improvement in the market, but due to p...
Rashelle Turner
Paying cash for land. Loan type to get my cash right back?
Hi all! In today’s market I need to use cash to buy this large tract of rural land and beat out the other offers. I will then start construction. I need to be able to pull the cash from the land purchase back out as...
Lloyd Segal
Economic Update (Monday, June 14, 2021)
Economic Update
(Monday, June 14, 2021)
For a period of time between 2018 and the beginning of 2020, the “Real House Price Index” (which calculates inflation in the Housing Sector) was falling, because Americans’ bu...
Cecil Russell
This has to be a doozy of an idea: Is this even Legal?
2 properties for sale in the same neighborhood. 1 is 45,000 the other is 49,000. Tax assessment of both is 10,000 lower that the asking price. The offer made is: He, (the owner) will sell both for &5,000 cash and...
Nicholas Lemmond
Fighting fear of failure, or jump in?
Hello All,First post on BP and I'm so glad to be here! I'm looking forward to beginning my REI journey and haveing y'all in my back pocket to help and answer questions!So, a little background on me - I will be exiting...
Ken Latchers
I have seen the future and it is not STR (for the most part).
There is something called an efficient market (well known in stocks and commodities). That is where there is no easy money to be made, as everything is priced so no one has an advantage.
Then there is the mania. Fo...
Chris Virgilio
Ramsey Fan and Credit Cards
Hello everyone,
My wife and I are looks to get in to real estate investment within the next year or so. To date we have been Dave Ramsey fans and are totally debt free as of about two weeks ago. Yay! Now we are savin...
Brent Davidson
Is it worth building a spec home in a downward market?
Some friends have conviced me to look at getting into building homes and selling them once complete. Would doing so be a bad idea, considering the timing of the housing market?
Even the NY Times has an article tod...