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This post/subject, is to help the new guy, and keep him/her from wasting thousands of hours to achieve nothing! So to begin: Is anybody else tired of the "You can start investing in real estate with 0 down" garbage...
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Yet another month with declining home sales (9th in a row).
While home buyers are definitely hurting, we continue to see 3 kinds of investors:
1) The optimist - they keep buying, haven’t changed a strategy, take in...
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I'm restructuring some of my leases to increase cash flow on a per building basis. For example, I am going to provide my tenants 2 window AC units, free parking, free storage, and some other amenities that they can i...
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I served my tenant a notice to quit and she is very upset and sent me a nasty text said I humiliated her in front of her kids and neighbors…. She already owed me $4300. She pretty much refuses to move in 14 days unle...
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Hello, Need advice.I had my property in Nashville rented for three years with a particular agent. We didn't have great chemistry, so when the lease ended and came time for a new tenant, we parted ways. I re-hired the ...
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As a young and eager investor I consider myself very blessed and fortunate to be where I am and have the people around me that I do. I currently live in San Antonio, but just finished my first year of College up in Ut...
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I was just wondering what everybody's education or background is? seems that a large percentage of you folks have some type of formal "business" or finance education, or come directly from the world of Real Estate?
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