If I want to know how a REIT or any mutual fund in any sector has performed relative to the market and relative to its peers in the last 1 year, 3 years, 5 years or 10 years, I can find this out through a rating servi...

What would you say determines your real estate strategy? Is it your market or your market conditions? For example here in Florida prices may have gone up but foreclosures are still in abundance. When prices are goin...

Hey all,This question has been asked in many forms and answered a hundred times. Feel free to link me if another discussion is similar enough to my question.Newbie investor; I have my first property under contract and...

I am a conservative investor who has a good income and good liquidity. I have a rental home that is getting into a range where I can pay it off this coming year. The benefits to this are:
-less debt
-increased cash fl...

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I'm normally good with #'s, but don't know how to calculate this one. Help an old fart out, college grads...

I have a subdivision where I've built a few homes in SO TX. I was approached by an individual that bought a...

Hello Everyone,I am working with my parents to 1031 a property that should go for around 800k with an 300k outstanding loan.  This will leave me with around 500k in equity on a new 800k+ investment.  Is it realistic t...

Hello everybody, thank you for any consideration ahead of time. 
so I am in a relatively peculiar situation and would love to get some advise. I'm going to be very honest because the facts and truths matter in this s...

1. Site Selection, 2. Considerations blog, 3. Site layout, This may be a little disjointed, I am combining 3 different blogs and discussions I have had.
1. Site Selection:
Your near Detroit, so I will do this ...

I have a tenant who's received multiple citations from Baltimore City Sanitation Dept, for having untagged and inoperable vehicles parked at the house.  They have one vehicle that doesn't even have an engine, yesterda...