Joe Strickley
Apartment Vacancy Rate Highest on Record, Rents Plunge
by CalculatedRisk on 1/07/2010 09:11:00 AM
From Reuters: U.S. apartment vacancy rate hits 30-year high
The U.S. apartment vacancy rate rose to an almost 30-year high of 8 percent in the fourth quarter, and rents...
Tom C
Getting back into the game
I use to be in the real estate game, and I sold off all my properties a few years back.
Now I'm trying to get back in, and boy it seems the other investors are out in full force these days.
It also seems as if pro...
Christian Flagg
REI & REA Advice ASAP
I'm currently a college student at Penn State going into my 3rd year. My father and I are both serious about real estate investment and he has experience in flipping houses. I have 3 weeks before I go back to college....
Jay Staudt
How Is the Rental Market in Coastal NC?
I live in Northern VA, where the job market tends to stay fairly strong even when the economy tanks. It's never been hard to find decent tenants for the rental properties we own up here.My wife and I have been talking...
Blake Williams
Buying a property without appliances?
Hey everyone, I had a quick question that actually just came up a few minutes ago while I was searching for properties for my first investment.One house that I was recently looking at is a 3 family in Hartford, CT and...
Freeman Schultz
Property Inspectors
So I am interested in investing in real estate in Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York. One thing that pops up is the property inspection. What is the best way to select a property inspector?Wh...
Daniel P Willis
Our house
After my wife and I got out of the military, we both decided to move to Idaho next to my parents and purchased a home in Eastern Idaho. I've been interested in real estate for a number of years but I've never had an o...
Evan Thomas
New Guy in New York
Hello,My name is Evan Thomas, and I'm from Lancaster, PA. I went to school at Fordham, and now I live in NYC and work in White Plains, NY. I took one REI course at Fordham, but it didn't appeal to me at the time becau...
Aaron Starr
Looking for financing advice for refi on paid for rentals
hi guys, im looking for advice on what to do. Im 31 and own a 17 unit mobile home park and 2 rental housesi have never used banks before my credit is not the greatest maybe around 630-680 score but all my properties a...
Kris L.
Capex seems like its calculated wrong
So I was reading the BP book on rental investments and it tells me to keep a % of rent aside for this, but that makes less sense to me than a $ amount. For instance, if I have a 1200 sqft 3/2 in a class C and a simil...