I am so glad I found this forum. I am new to investing in real estate and found out about REOs from a neighbor who is paid by banks to get them into selling condition if need be.

I have been searching for REOs in ...

Going to try to negotiate the purchase of vacant lot tomorrow. Any advice?I’m meeting the owner of a vacant lot tomorrow to try to negotiate the purchase of a vacant lot in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a killer pr...

General question.I frequently read posts wherein a wholesaler, birddog, or similar, talks about finding buyers, finding sellers, connecting them, and this sort of thing. And the questions are invariably about what con...

Hello everyone!! I'm fairly new to REI in Chicago but full of passion when it comes to all things real estate. I used to sketch architectural plans as a kid but let my career path take me in a couple other directio...

Hi, I’m not sure if this is of any value to anyone, but I thought I'd share my process in my first marketing effort to purchase an investment home from owners that have not listed nor may have considered listing their...

I have been searching for investment opportunities for a few months now and had zero luck.  The single family properties that look reasonable for a flip or flip and hold are snatched up for a lot higher than what my n...

Some markets are good, some not so good. This is current data and it just is what it is:Among the 53 metro areas analyzed in the report with at least 1 million people, those with the highest share of completed flips ...

Can people give me some unbiased opinions on a list of markets and what they’re seeing in those areas? Using a scoring system can people rate these markets on a scale of 1-10 for population growth, job growth, and vac...

I have a question... I'm an out of state investor and I find properties through the MLS and Loopnet.  Thus, I ask my agents to go out and take a video walkthrough of the property so I can decide on whether to make an ...

I just completed an almost simultaneous close on two different properties. On Friday I closed on 36.4 acres of vacant farmland. This past Monday I closed on a 3bd / 2ba house on 1 acre.
I want to turn the 36 acres i...