My fiancee and I have been long distance for the last few years, but we're finally making the plans for her to move to California in August. The major issue we're facing is that we don't know what she will do for work...
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Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a weekly frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
Coming at you live from Nashville, no A...
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Hello all, I'm a REI newbie looking for some advice. I'm trying to buy properties in southern california. I'm currently working with an agent to look at houses and found a couple of SFR that interests me. When ask...
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Hi,I am currently looking into Real Estate Syndications as I'm looking for more passive cash flow. I'd want them to have an office in the Bay Area, so I can drop by and chat.The following names have popped up in my se...
Hi all,New member here.I’ve been learning about and following the real estate industry for over three years now and am trying to get my feet wet.Currently have an offer out on the following property – plan to buy and ...
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Hello Everyone!I am currently in the process of obtaining my real estate license (state test next week). My goals are to begin investing in single family homes to buy and hold or flip, depending on the house. Once I h...
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So, I've made a mistake that is very frustrating and I want to warn other investors. I hired one of my tenants to do some work for me on a fence. He currently does handyman work for one of the big RE companies in to...
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I've consistently written about the forces of nature and her current and future effects on the real estate market (even while often being ridiculed and politicized on this very site for it) regardless: I personally mo...
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Hello BP Community!My fiancé and I are new investors from California and investing in Fort Worth and Mansfield TX, however, it seems like our third income property seems to be taking us longer to rent. We purchased it...
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I bought a land at a County tax deed auction. I did my due diligence and both the city zoning website and the zoning expert at the City said it is residential.
I won the auction....excited....and then another...