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I am closing this week on my first property, which I will use for short term rentals in Palm Springs. I have done pretty extensive research on what to expect with city regulations and have used a lot of online tools t...
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Just went to inspect some work and noticed they weren't using thinset to lay down the cement board under porcelain tile.
When I asked the contractor, he asked his flooring guy who had been doing tile for 25 ...
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Through experience and observation there are endless scams in the Real Estate Industry. I'm a math guy, I do the numbers and can forecast value, so a scam is pretty obvious to me. I've been reading BP on and off for o...
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If you were able to choose from a range of investment mortgages... from those that are currently available in your local market and one that is available to you at 2%, which would you choose?
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This is the After:This is when we bought it:This is going to be an in depth write up of the work we completed on my first flip, located in a wealthy suburb of Detroit that will hopefully net us around $150k (eat that ...
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Hi everyone, I'm currently in the market for performing institutional first position notes, but I'm not sure where to start. I have Dave Van Horn's book and have listened to it twice, but when it comes to actually tak...
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Can anyone offer actual insight into this whole mess with Tom Krol and Vincent Polisi?
Ive spoken with Tom before and he seems like a decent guy. I just want to be sure that before I move forward I'm not doing anyth...
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Has anyone taken interest in "Tiny Homes", less than 500 sq ft homes.
I've been reading up on these, and it looks like people are building them ground up for less than $15k. Some people are claiming to live here for ...