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I'm an Iowan who has found his way to Tokyo, Japan to work as a programmer.Although I truly enjoy programming as a profession, my real dream is to become a full-time investor and continue programming as a hobby. I've ...
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I purchased a few rental houses about six years ago, and want to refinance them to take advantage of these low rates. The deeds are in the name of my LLC now, but if I re-deed the properties in my personal name, I ca...
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I was recently listening to episode 293 of the BiggerPockets podcasts where Chad Carson talks about his tax lien strategy. Does Ventura County do this? It looked like they list homes for auctions but I didn't see anyt...
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If you were starting out with 15,000 cash and you wanted to flip homes, what steps would you take first? 15K is obviously not enough to flip an entire home.
This is what I'm starting with right now. I have done alo...
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I was wondering.. Is it possible to do a 'house hack' with no income starting out? I am still in school, and have no current income, would it be possible to get the necessary loan to fund a house hacking project for m...
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I just noticed today that the interest rates on conventional mortgages went up by 25 basis points. In what ways will rising interest rates impact Real Estate investing? Should there be any concern for those that don't...
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Which are the top zip codes in the Detroit metro for Buy & Hold single family properties..both in terms of potential appreciation and for cash flow?
I am looking to purchase about a dozen properties up th...
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I have been looking @ this formula w/ real case scenarios. The only way you can make this work is with very low price homes in suspect area. Now, if you do that, what's the quality of the tenants going to be &, ev...
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In Podcast # 109, Scott talked about the limitation of insurance policies. Basically, from what I understood, the interest of your insurance company does not necessarily align with the landlord's. So when a claim is f...
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Just purchased my first property and trying to decide if I should convert an oversized laundry room to a walk in closet or into master bathroom. If i convert it to a master bathroom is it possible to have just a showe...