Stanley Bronstein
Proposed Seattle Fair Chance Housing Ordinance
I just read this article about the Seattle fair housing law and I thought it opens up some very interesting issues that people might want to discuss.The subject line says Proposed, as i was unable to edit it out (my a...
Tyrel Holman
Hard money lender for rental property
Recently I read an article on bigger pockets, about a truck driver using a hard money lender to buy multi family units eventually quitting his job etc etc, how does this process work? He also refinanced to save some c...
Account Closed
Great Article on Rents by WSJ
Takeaways: Rents are down in NYC and SF, but have still climbed in such cities as Sacramento, CA and Riverside, CA. By historical date, there should be a recession cominghttp://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cities-see-apa...
J Adams
Jay Adams, Newbie from San Diego, CA
Hello BiggerPockets! My name is Jay. I'm currently 21 going to school for entrepreneurship, but I'm really interested in real estate investing for the cash flow (buy and hold). I'm interested in the cash flow because ...
Andy Hunt
Wall Street Journal Article12/29: House Flipping Makes Comeback
I'm actually shocked that no one has posted yet regarding this article that came out in the Wall Street Journal today: http://www.wsj.com/articles/as-home-prices-rise-fl...According to the article, We've now reached p...
Sam Green
Playing a slowdown in real estate aka. bubble watch
I wanted to thank BiggerPo for posting a great article on the "Real Estate News Blog" - everyone should read this one! http://biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=15
It talks about how to prepare yourself for when foreclo...
Account Closed
One reason that banks aren't lending
I read an interested article:
http://needamortgageloan.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/would-you-pay-your-bank-to-not-make-you-a-loan/
Essentially banks have parked 1.2 trillion more in reserves than is required for balanc...
Greg Neuman
Private Money loan structuring
I’m interested in finding advice, topics, articles, videos, etc on the topic of private money. I understand the basic concept, and how to raise it, but want to get detailed information on some of the options of struc...
Mike Nelson
Art of The Deal by Tony Schwartz andd Donald Trump
One of the books I read in the 80's I read that really got me pumped up was "Art of the Deal" by Tony Schwartz and Donald Trump. Trump was a real estate developer in New York. His father Fred was quite successful ...
Ravi P.
Blackstone/ Invitations Homes IPO
I just read an article stating: Blackstone's Invitation Homes will be going public. Largest home owner of homes in the US.I am not sure how to read this. Does this indirectly mean the RE market has peaked on a Macro l...