Tyson Scheutze
Insights from IMN: Single Family Rental Forum East
The IMN Single Family Rental East and West conferences are always great opportunities to meet with the most active residential rental experts in the country. And this week’s conference in Miami delivered lots of insig...
Francisco Milan
How were you staying busy in the 2008 recession ?
Hello Everyone,
Wanted to ask the professionals of this forum who have been around for a few crashes, how were you staying busy in the 09 recession ? What did you focus on to serve your clients and get closings ? Wha...
Rob K.
Big changes to Section 8?
I have a tenant that is on Section 8 and her lease expires at the end of October. I just received word from Section 8 that the portion of the rent that she pays is almost going to triple for the next lease. The tenant...
Clarence Bell
Property purchase with combined retirement and non-retirement
Hi,I wanted to find out if anyone has done a property purchase using combined money from their self-directed IRA and funds outside their retirement as the down payment. I'm looking at combining both since commercial ...
Franklin P.
To IRA or not to IRA…
My employer gives me the option of setting up an IRA or Roth IRA and they will match up to 3%. My goal is to continue to buy real estate and be able to spend some of those profits as I go and reinvesr the rest of the ...
Syed Rizvi
Tax Efficient Way to Cash Out of Stocks to Purchase Property
Hi BPer's,I'd like to convert some of my stock and bond holdings to cash and then purchase an owner-occupied investment property with those funds (using the FHA loan, probably less than 10% down payment). I have held ...
Bob Foglia
Portfolio Lender that lends in both Colorado & Oklahoma?
I've seen a number of discussions about portfolio lenders, but wasn't sure if they tended to be national, regional, state, local, etc???? Are any of these companies national? Or at least regional? Or do they tend to ...
Account Closed
Bubbles and Crashes in Residential Real Estate
There is increasingly frequent chatter about a real estate bubble and impending crash. I think projections like this are often misguided and counterproductive. Here are a few thoughts and I would love to hear what o...
Nathan Woods
The Stack Illustration - Thanks Brandon Turner for the great idea!
Hi all, I am new to RE investing but have been researching for years now the most direct and efficient route to scale and this makes the most sense to me. Each step would educate and prepare me for the next. I thought...
Jolene Desmond
Multi-Family. A gateway to Commercial Real Estate?
I have always considered Multi-Family to be an asset class of Commercial Real Estate... But I see more and more Investors who consider Multi-Family to be neither Residential or Commercial - something of its own. It a...