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To all investors starting out and those who are seasoned- NEVER GIVE UP!!
If you're goal is to be successful find a way. Read, learn, make offers, fail your way to success. Don't run off half-cocked, educat...
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Hi --
I wanted to share my basic outline of my business plan here, and get some critique, if possible. I'm a little stuck on an "exit" strategy in that, in the interest of lowering taxes, I may NEVER exit, and instead...
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My wife and I are starting to look into investing and purchasing our first rental. We were looking at single families for a while and kept our search close to home. The high taxes and little inventory meant there was ...
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I think we've all been there at some point. It's either the beginning of our investing career, or we just get a little busy. We miss a call and they DON'T leave a voicemail and sometimes they don't even make it to y...
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I’m having trouble finding a lender to do a 30 year fixed rate cash out refinance. The lenders I have talked to are only offering 15 year ARM loans right now they said due to Covid. What does that have to do with anyt...
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I am still working on getting started. I started gathering my thoughts about anyone I know that could help me. I remembered working with a lady some time back at a bank. She used to have an RE license, but never pr...
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So, long story short, I bought my first house to live in for about 130k, put about 70 into it, including 20k for the foundation and it was just appraised at 245k and I was going to get 57k back out in cash. So not pe...
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Greetings,My name is Joseph "Joe" Davisson, I am an attorney, real estate broker, investor in Dallas, Texas. In the past 20+ years I have worked in a variety of real estate related capacities. As a teenager I got m...
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I've recently pitched a property to my investor. He's someone I have a relationship with. Here's the situation.
*First deal
*using his credit
*he finances the whole down payment
What's your guys/girls experiences...
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I've stumbled somewhat into an opportunity and would like the advice of some experts here on if you think this is a good potential deal. I wouldn't say this is traditional, so evaluating the risk/reward is a bit more ...