What is your thought on "creative financing" (CF) in RE?

How do you define this?

How do you expect CF to apply in buying or selling?

I'm seeing some "promoters" of CF putting out some pretty old a...

The upfront agreement - the second step in negotiating with home sellersWell the upfront agreement was designed to avoid some things.What would you want to avoid in a sales presentation?The classic "thank you but I wa...

I've done a little reading on making trips/vacations tax deductible, but I'm still not totally clear.

I am going to visit an out-of-state turnkey provider as part of my due diligence process to meet them and see th...

Hello all, I have an arrangement set up to meet with a group of investors to show them investment properties. I am an agent that has been doing a lot of research over the last year to get into real estate investing my...

This is our 2nd tenant for our rental property and just got a laundry list of complains after moving it.  Just minor issues that we can easily resolve but its a little discouraging since we never had any issue with ou...

Under current tax law, your building is set to depreciate over 27.5 or 39 years. But many assets like lighting, carpeting and cabinetry depreciate much faster than that.

Which means you shouldn’t have to wait all t...

I'm in the process of renovating my latest rental house.  I've been thinking about Smart-Home features which would be beneficial to a landlord as opposed to wiz-bang cool features to attract tenants. Specifically, I'm...

We have a property in Central East Austin — very accessible to Downtown, UT, and the new Dell Medical School. We've owned the property for 15 years and recently paid off our mortgage completely. The original 2br house...

I sell manufactured homes and I saw a listing of one of my homes with the same pictures, different description and triple the price on CL. I confronted the guy and he seemed to think he was doing me a favor. I got him...

I'm tired of changing out my keys or rekeying.  I'm considering going keyless and changing all my deadbolts  (each one is roughly $55).  A concern would be that the batteries would be dead forcing my tenants to be loc...