Carl Schmitt
"Flipping a short sale is illegal"
I'm sure all the "flippers" out there read the subject and said, "That's not true!". I would say it all depends. The reason I'm writing this is because as I was speaking with a "short sale expert", she informed me t...
Stephanie D.
Getting cold feet - help!
So we've got an accepted offer and have fulfilled all conditions. Had a bit of trouble with financing due to the type of foundation but that has now been resolved. But last night, just before our deadline, I wrote to ...
Jc M.
Being Swallowed Alive: The Collapse of San Francisco
I was born and raised in San Francisco and as we all know, this city is changing big time. My wife and I felt fortunate that we were able to buy a home here in 2016 despite the astronomical cost. Our children know not...
Mike Boss
Does it ever make sense to sell at a loss.
Does it make sense to get money out of a poor performing investment to enter into a better performing investment if the sale results in a loss? I have a duplex with $70k invested into it OH. Way too much money put in ...
Jennifer Shen
Thoughts about Turnkey Investing
Hi, I'm currently looking for my first investment property. It seems to me Turnkey properties will be the fastest way to get my portfolio started. Wondering...what are yall's thoughts on turnkey properties? Are the nu...
Miles Smith
What would you do if you were 18?
Hello everyone I'm turning 18 in July and am fortunate enough to have a family who has started a fund in my name when I was born which has grown to $80k in cash and $60k in stocks. I live in southern California in the...
Llewelyn A.
Cash on Cash Return Compared to Cert. of Deposits
While I have been a RE Investor for 2 Decades, I've seen this metric quite often. The Cash on Cash Return (CoCR) seemed to be part of a lot of REI's decision making criteria.This Post will be a very long one but one f...
Jeffery Waicak
Habits of wealthy people
I was looking at Grant cordone' s Twitter. He said that something like 68% of wealthy people do cardio 4x a week 26% of poor people do. 90% of wealthy people read 30 minutes a day. 2% of poor people do. What other h...
Marie Skaggs
bad tenant, eviction, appeal, what do i do?
OK so we bought our 1st rental property... spent about 10 months of hard work and sweat to completely gut it and put it back into great shape on our own. Got our tenant and she had a good background check, a job, pr...
Mark Forest
Syndication capital calls
Why is my syndication asking for capital calls? Are any of you experiencing this?