Nat Love
Negotiating with seller/seller finance/first time
So I am very new to REI, no experience, and no properties yet, but I just had my first phone call with a seller who may be open to seller financing. She is a very sweet elderly woman, not entirely retired from being a...
Greg Stetz
Funniest Most Bizarre Encounter?
Let's lighten the mood: What's the funniest or most bizarre encounter you've had while negotiating a real estate deal? We could all use a good laugh!
Dawn Anastasi
This is what the public thinks of real estate investors
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2013/03/26/mabel-bobo-loses-charlotte-home/
Article title: Mabel Bobo, 88, Loses Home When Investor Buys It for $5,000
I think this is what the public sometimes thinks of real estate ...
Victor Avelino
Walking Shirtless in the Hallway
Hello,I'm a new landlord looking for advice. I appreciate it in advance. I have a multi family house with three units. I have one tenant that likes to be shirtless in the common areas. The other two tenants feel offe...
David Van Brunt
Tenant pays, but has become unreachable... worry?
I am in my first rental property, in Pleasant Prairie, WI (about 26 miles from where I live). The tenants are a young couple with kids, and the place backs up to a good school. All seems right, but at the same I am un...
Matt Faller
Time to Start
Ive been learning about real about investing for about a year and a half now.
I havnet been able to get started due to some family issues, and the fact that im not 18.
But all thats worked out, and I'd like to start d...
Colleen Ayers
Landlord Burned the House Down
I'm helping out a friend whose rental home burned down last week. It was a shared house arrangement - the landlord is an older woman, and she rented out two bedrooms in her home, one to my friend and one to another re...
Emma Chen
After Winning Tax Lien Certificates Online
Hi all,
As I said in the other post, http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/70/topics/116927-results-for-first-time-tax-lien-investment-in-az , I won 8 tax liens in Coconino county. I wonder what I should do to ...
Christian Baker
Genius Rental Strategy or Disaster Waiting To Happen?
Good Morning everyone,I have a question about my situation that I'd love to get some feedback on from some more experienced investors.Some backstory: I am adjusting to a recent move to a one person salary. I wasn't ge...
Gerald Jordan
Investing in mult-unit properties and placing a certain amount of silver bullion down along side the money acquired for the purchase.
I am anticipating moving into my real estate quest after October 2015, as this is when my bankruptacy can be written off my credit report. I was a single parent when I attempted to buy a property. I didn't win the bid...