I have been looking for a strip mall/ shopping center in my area and am not finding any below $3M that are priced based on cap rates or any obvious rational calculation. Also, at their asking prices, they would no...

Hello everyone,I'm a teacher by trade and small time investor in San Francisco. I've been looking for my next deal in the bay area, and while there have been some that might meet the 1% rule at best, I can't get my mi...

With all the talk of bubbles, I was thinking to myself, What causes irrational exuberance in people when it comes to different forms of investing??

It always leads to some bust, and yet it happens over and over again...

I'm wondering how many of you guys experience a seller freaking out or feel like he was cheated because he finds out you made several thousand off of him during the closing?I know we have to drop the "I may assign thi...

Hello, I recently rehabbed a house to sell and is now pending. When we listed the house, we put in the remarks that the house was sold AS IS. Inspections went fine, and we are about 1 week away from closing, but my ...

I just found out that two people from my high school graduating class are both entering REI - one renovating a property to rent out, and one doing their first flip. Neither of these people have any background in real ...

In Ohio, does anyone know if you can have a "Irrational Tenant" Clause in your lease? Most reccenlty, we have been dealing with a irrational teant. The tenant is being very rude, unprofessional and demanding. For exam...

The Fed increased its benchmark federal-funds rate again this Wednesday which will now range in the 5-5.25% representing a 16-year high.  Some economists are claiming that this raise was already priced into current mo...

I am looking at my first rental property investment, with the current rates and San Diego pricing cashflow is very hard, so I wonder if I should remove tax property and insurance from my cashflow calculations as they ...

      By way of background, I've bought 8 SFRs in the last 18 months, 4 with conventional loans and the other 4 in cash.  These properties are worth approx. $2.5mil, and I owe less then $700k  on the mortgages, so net...