Does anyone have a good handle on the difference between a lease/option and a lease/purchase. It is my understanding that they are very similar except that under the lease/purchase, the "buyer" is guaranteeing a cert...

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The point of this message is to try and find out what a good real estate investor does when crunching the numbers before they acquire real estate. Can you please look at what I did below and tell me the pos. and ...

Pre-foreclosure - The loan is in default and the seller is facing foreclusure. It seems like the bank pays the seller the value of the home minus the owner's equity in the home. So, from an investors perspective, if y...

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I have a full time job (like many on this board I imagine), I work in NYC and rent (ridicously high! - which aside from an interest entrepreneurship, and the success of my god mother in REI, is the main reaso...

The mortgage is due on the 1st. I'd like to have the rent due on the 15th. While I do have funds set aside to pay the mortgage in the event that rent is late, I like the little safety net of not having it all due at t...

Are we as a world going to survive this current economic crisis? Will all this turmoil lead to more declines and eventually Anarchy?? Share your opinions.

I am a full time worker that started learning about REI several months ago and recently I have started locating properties for local investors. I am prioritizing and saving to purchase a property of my own in a coupl...

I just listened to the August 1, 2018 podcast "7 paths to financial independence".  Really great episode.  They talked about the following method for those who don't want to be super active in real estate:Buy one hous...

Good evening everyone!Need some advice from the vets please..My neighbor has approached me multiple times, since I moved in a year ago, asking me if I would be interested in buying his half (Our house is a duplex, but...

Hello everyone,  My name is Daymon Olson and my very soon to be wife, Lisa, live in a rural area, west of Fort Worth. I am a retired military veteran.  We have a single family house hack, my old house, that has opened...