Hello everyone,My name is Mark and I am a life-long Chicagoan. I come from a financial industry background, but am new to real estate investing and would like to start to get more involved in the industry. This post i...

Hi, I entered escrow 30 days ago on a leasehold + fee available property. My lender said he could not lock down rates until he received the fee contract from the seller. This took almost 3 weeks to receive and in that...

I'm starting to receive applications for a unit I have for rent. As a full-time working single mom, I don't respond to texts, calls or emails right away and try to block out time once or twice a week to respond to ev...

Hi,I've come across a few Connecticut threads already, but none really hit on what I'm looking for so I figured I'd start one on my own. I'm looking to buy my first rental property at some point this summer. I'm hopin...

Hey all,I'm placing this in the "Investor Psychology" section because I'm just sort of pontificating in this post, stream of consciousness style, ya dig? I'm not looking for any specific type of response but I welcome...

Hi everybody,Real estate investing has been brought up to me a few months back and, since then, I have been dedicating my time to learning as much as I possibly can while I build up capital for my first investment.I f...

Hi all, looking to build relationships and network with other investors local to the Brooklyn, NY market that are buying at least 2-4 properties a month.Anyone here looking to network and grow their business?

Help!!

I've made almost 1000 cold calls in the past 2-3 months, all to unlisted multifamily owners. Finding numbers is time-consuming - it's a real job.

Most folks just aren't interested in talking.

I've put in m...

I wrote a post on Bigger Pockets a little over three years ago on how to understand San Antonio’s real estate market based on the type of deals that investors are looking for. Since then it has received numerous votes...

So I've been looking on Crexi at Multifamily buildings and most have a 4%, 5%, 6% cap rate on average. Isn't that low? How does one justify putting 300k down to only make 2k-4k a month? Is that a normal return?