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Hi guys!I've just recently bought myself an apartment to live in, in Abbotsford, BC (about an hour outside of vancouver BC). Now, I'm looking to buy my first investment rental property. The problem is, in my area, the...
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Hi ,We have a single family home in Bay area and are planning to invest in Sacremento area. I am inclined towards new construction homes(SFR) in Rancho Cordova or in Folsom. My husband is more leaning towards Tracy. H...
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Came across this article today and thought it might make for a good discussion: These are the Top 20 Cities Americans are DitchingI think it’s funny that some of the cities that many investors suggest as good places t...
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This past week the FED indicated a pause in their historically paced rate tightening cycle.
The pause in rate increases should have the effect of eventually lowering mortgage rates.
I have written extensively abou...
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Hi, I'm totally new to the forums but I have been listening to the pod casts for months now and have learned so much. I live in the Sacramento area and have a few rental properties here. Investing out of state seems...
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I've herd about a technique for getting together funds by opening several credit cards and getting line increases until you have enough to purchase a property, then refinancing out. Sound like a good idea or bad. Has ...
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I'm really having trouble seeing where the money comes from from being agent. It seems that if you're not selling 12, 20, 30 homes that it's extremely difficult to make a living. From the experiences I've heard it's h...
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There's a lot of REAL Estate educational platforms out there promising to show you how to invest in real estate or flip houses, so why is it out of the hundreds of people that sign up for these seminars, these educati...
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For those of you that own vacation rentals, do you know of where a person can find the data on local markets related to VR? Such as rents, number of units in an area, vacancy rates, etc.?
Ann Watkins