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Situation:I have an older lady who called me up with a sorry story that goes something like this. She is 65 years old and her husband is 80. She has a son who came out of a nasty divorce and is now with his 3 children...
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I understand build to rent (BTR) is a new strategy developers are using to exit their projects sooner. As I understand, the developers are willing to sell a whole community (e.g., a townhouse community) to an investor...
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I have questions about tax lien investing in IL and in general maybe someone can help:
1) When you win a tax cert, when is the interest paid out to you? Does the interest incur per month, 6 months, daily? If someone...
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We are actively pursuing the purchase of our first STR with a plan to add more. We've been advised by our accountant that each should be purchased in the name of an LLC to protect our assets. The STR experts here advi...
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Happy Sunday BiggerPockets Community!I recently found this site and am truly excited to interact with everyone, expand my knowledge and gain experience in real estate investing.My intention for 2016 is to buy my 2nd r...
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It came up in another thread that some of you always have your prospective properties inspected. Of coarse I look over each property on my own. I test the electric for grounding, and examine the main breaker panel f...
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I am considering joining LU in Houston as a Preferred (PIG) member for MF investing and would like some feedback on the actual mechanics and timeline from signup to cash flow from someone who has been through the proc...
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Should we buy or rent our next residence? We live in So Cal and want to start investing in real estate. Our goal is to buy and hold and start producing some cash flow. We are in our early 40's, so we are a little late...
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Hi all, I'm an investor in the multi-family commercial space (based in Atlanta) and I'm looking for a tertiary, emerging market to play in. I've read Dave Lindahl's book, "Emerging Markets", where he breaks down the ...
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So I've started to see this model pop up, usually with particularly poor execution. The underlying question is fairly simple:
If you as an investor had an opportunity to purchase with leverage at "courthouse steps" ...