John Jacobus
Shopping for Loans While Avoiding Impact to Personal Credit Score
I'm looking for best practices to employ while shopping for mortgage loans for investment properties (small multi-family and SFR). My standard approach is to pursue 3-4 lenders when applying for a mortgage. I typica...
Mike D'Arrigo
Did Your Retirement Account Do This in 2015?
The DJIA closed at $17,833 on January 2, 2015. It closed the year out on December 31, 2015 at $17,425--down 2.2%. If you're IRA or 401K followed the performance of the DOW, you had no gain for the year. Furthermore, t...
Ravi Kulkarni
Investing in Spain Real Estate and Managing Properties Remotely
I am a newbie in real estate investing. I have a few properties in the US primarily for generating a regular cash flow. I would like to explore European real estate market, specifically, Spain with the same investment...
Ryan Dossey
Do any of you guys buy and hold gold?
I have a wealthy friend who owns numerous businesses. He is a hardcore believer in stock piling gold. Anyone here mess with it?
Kyohei Yoshida
Do I need to have money to build syndication?
I'm studying to build syndication business, I want to be on the active side of syndication which I believe is GP? I really want to take some syndication course sometime soon, but I need to have this question cleared....
Nate Kimball
Newbie investing group....where do we start?
Hello everyone,
I'm new to the forums, but have been reading the posts and articles here for some time now. I seek your wisdom!
A small group of friends and myself all work jobs with low hours and good income. We ha...
Mike McKinzie
Is a License Required?
I was going to combine several loans through one mortgage refinance on the current house I reside in. I was going to get the financing from my uncle as it would save me many costs. But he just told me that he found ...
Mariah Jeffery
Mechanics of seller financing
I'm about to make an offer on a multiple-property deal with seller financing and I have some questions. I assume if the deal gets accepted, I'll need to get a real estate lawyer but in the mean time, I'm thinking of t...
Jennifer S.
Self Directed IRA Cashflow
I've been reading up on the Self-Directed IRA, and from what I've found is that any cash flow/profit goes back into the SD-IRA. How does one legally obtain funds from a SD-IRA for basic living expenses if the purpose ...
Jeremy W.
Help with a Deal in Lincoln Park, Chicago
Being a commercial broker, a friend (he is a broker too) recently brought me this property. If this moves forward, this will be my first property. We plan on going in on the investment and operating the property using...