@Bill Labrecque and I recently purchased a 3-family in New Britain, Connecticut as a flip project. Since we are expecting the rehab to be pretty be expansive we figured it would be good for a BP deal diary which we ha...

Market Vertigo
by Cliff Draughn

"We give you a Republic; now see if you can keep it." -- Ben Franklin

As I have remarked in prior calendar-turning newsletters, it is this time of the year when most people pause ...

Listening to this weeks podcast the guest made a statement that he would Never hire someone unless they had a job in collage. How many of you successful folks out there had a Job in collage? (I realize some of you nev...

Let me know what you think as my potential first investment! 4-Plex Purchase Price: 200kCurrently tax appraised at 218k3% downpaymentTotal Loan Amount: 194,000Texas Teacher Heros Grant: 4% or 7,760PITI: 1729/month (10...

Ive been in the business almost a year now and have 1 transaction pending with one overpriced listing to show for it. I have nothing coming up as of now. I joined a boutique RE agency because at the interview they tol...

Nearly 9 percent of mortgages are in forbearance. Discover a new kind of real estate investment and uncover profits on your local courthouse steps!

Welcome to the world of buying foreclosed homes at auction—a real ...

Hi all-I just wanted to run a problem that my partner and I are running into during a double duplex purchase.  Properties are in Central Florida.We recently went under contract for a pair of duplexes off the MLS, and ...

Hello all! I am out of state investing in the Cleveland market and I have a property I'm looking to close on! As such I'm shopping around for property managers. I'm getting concerned because I know from all my BP read...

Even though Net Present Value is used mainly in financial management I think it is probably the best ratio/calculation for analyzing a real estate deal. Unfortunately in Real Estate Analysis people usually use mainly ...

As regular readers of this site know there’s plenty of sentiment (and evidence) that we’re headed for some bad times, maybe even some truly TERRIBLE times.

I have two questions:
1) Are you worried and, if so, ho...