Raky Patel
Advice on sale needed ASAP
Hey all, I need advice regarding the sale of my rental. It is a former residence that is a cookie cutter town house. I am basically breaking even on. I owe $107k on it and market value is $157-160k. 1. Are transaction...
Joshua Swanger
what cost are associated with being a realtor
As a newbie I'm trying to find my nitch in real estate. In the mean time I am trying to learn as much as possible so my question if I get my license what are the cost of being a realtor. I understand there is marketin...
Tina C.
Fix rental house or sell it & buy a different one?
Hello everyone,I am a newbie and need some advice. I have a cash flowing rental property out of state that needs work done on it. It is an older home with a huge backyard. It needs a lot of minor work but is eventuall...
Amie Gray
First Long Distance BRRRR
Hi BP! My husband and I are in are 50s. We are looking forward to retirement but concerned about our ability to weather the stock market swings over the next 25 years and maybe more. We have two kids; our son is just ...
Dan Christie
First deal 3 properties 2 months in
Well I am 2 months into my first deal. I purchased 3 properties from a "Tired and worn down landlord". The original owner had multiple properties throughout the area he was looking to liquidate and step back from land...
Joshua Dorkin
Zillow Goes Public - Ticker Z - $1.6 Billion Valuation - Thoughts?
Zillow started trading today on the NASDAQ under the ticker Z. According to this article on TechCrunch, when the stock opened at $60, that represented a valuation of $1.6 billion - extremely frothy, given the $11.3 m...
Melinda Smith
Newbie from Dallas, TX
Hi, everyone! My name is Melinda, and I'm from the DFW area. I'm a newbie on this site as well as a newbie in real estate. I'm not a newbie in owning my own business, as I've owned 2 businesses in the last 10 years...
Sorin T
Fannie and Freddie's Big Foreclosure Backlog
Good reading
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/1106b4214044575550
As their holdings of unsold homes increase, Fannie and Freddie eventually will need to drop prices and turn to investors, analysts predict
The bottom line:...
Robert Steele
Meanwhile, Big Investors Quietly Slip Out The Back Door On Housing As "Stupid Money" Jumps In
Last September, one of the original institutional investors in the housing-to-rent strategy, multi-billion hedge fund Och-Ziff called it quits on the landlord business. The reason: "the New York-based hedge fund is lo...
Christina Colon
Military move- Should I sell or rent out our home?
Currently we live in a new construction single family home we purchased with a VA home loan. We will be moving with no intention to move back into this home. With 7 years left of the military we would like to start ...