5 Questions to Ask When Considering an Investment Partner
I’ve done a decent amount of partnering in my career, both within real estate and in other business ventures. My experience has helped me to develop an intuitiveness around potential…
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I’ve done a decent amount of partnering in my career, both within real estate and in other business ventures. My experience has helped me to develop an intuitiveness around potential…
Real estate appraisals are just as much an art as a science. Here are several helpful tips for preparing for an appraisal and working with an appraiser to ensure the…
Certain negotiation strategies can put you leaps and bounds ahead of your competition. This article will offer seven powerful negotiating tips that you will likely find very useful while pursuing…
There are dozens of pieces of data that can be used to assess when an economic shift might occur. But one, specifically, has proven to be the most reliable over…
Listen up, buy and hold investors and math geeks. This one's for you. How well do you understand leverage? For those only somewhat familiar, there's a super cool finance concept…
Anyone who has read any reasonable number of my posts will know that I’m not a huge fan of real estate training programs (paid or unpaid) for brand new investors.…
I get a lot of emails and phone calls from newbie wholesalers who are looking to do their first deal (and very few that are actually experienced). Most of the…
In the course of a typical week, I get to see and hear about a lot of properties for sale to rehabbers. Inevitably among them are properties advertised by sellers…
After years of doing rehabs, I’ve just purchased my first long-term rental property and put it on the market a few days ago… In preparation, I’ve spent a tremendous amount…
Today’s Quiz: What is my return on the following investment: I bought my first investment property back in August 2008. I paid $63,500 for the house using my own cash.…
There’s a BiggerPockets forum thread going on this week that addresses the issue of realtors, and whether they are worth their fee when selling your investment property. While I’m not…
One of the biggest challenges real estate investors face is keeping the profits that they earn from their investments. Just like any other business, the IRS is going to want…
My last post discussed how to analyze the financials of an income-producing property. In that post, I discussed a bit about Cap Rate and how to calculate it. But, I…