I am a huge fan of the business of building. I have been interested in becoming a general contractor, as I am 18 and looking for experience and to continue my love of real estate. My grandfather was a licensed contrac...

I'm a fairly new investor and my father is a bit of a seasoned real estate professional that remembers the days of lenders loaning money to anyone with a pulse (and even some without a pulse). He continues to tell ...

Hello everyone,Apologies for the long post but I think it's warranted to see the magnitude of the factually inaccurate appraisal I received recently. I recently dealt with a bank who had approved my loan request throu...

Hi All,

First I would like to thank everyone here for all of the informative posts. I am definitely seeing some good use for this site.

My name is Edwin and I am from Northern New Jersey. I currently work in NYC...

I have a pretty simple one story rambler, rehab and flip, that just got a fresh coat of white paint (siding and trim). I am planning on installing black louvered shutters on the three front windows. I want to paint th...

Right now we just use our current one for informational purposes only. Most of our marketing is direct mail and many of our sellers first go to our website to learn more about us.

However, We want to graduate...

I've been loaning businesses rehab funds for their projects and was wondering if my business activity requires a licence in Oregon state.  I'm in Washington and so is the business I loan to however the projects are in...

First I want to thank this BP for providing me a lot of info on REI !
I invested some properties overseas. It brought me tremendous return ,about 5 times appreciation. I am liquidating all of them. It wil be about 1....

Today I had to change my address. I used USPS's online service. To my surprise at the end of checkout they gave me a option for coupons... hmmm Home Depot & Lowes you say.... So I printed them out.... 10% off of y...

I live in Los Angeles and feel like I don't know where to find good investment properties (I'm interested in buy and hold).  I've used the rental property calculator, but not sure where to look.  How do you even decid...