Barbara Johannsen
From Landlord to Lender — Transitioning into Note Investing
13 November 2025 | 4 replies
The biggest surprises most people mention are how much due diligence still matters and how different managing paper risk is from managing property risk.
Shelly Hershey
Current Real Estate Market Trends
10 November 2025 | 4 replies
Quote from @Shelly Hershey: The market feels different depending on where you invest — some areas are slowing down, others remain surprisingly hot.
Nick Copland
Drop Your City — I’ll Tell You If It’s a Good Midterm Rental Market
14 November 2025 | 39 replies
Goodyear and Surprise, AZ (west valley suburbs of Phoenix).
Eric Janes
Mackay, Idaho is an Untapped Outdoor Paradise with Huge Development Potential
6 November 2025 | 1 reply
I have been looking at small towns across the West and stumbled across one that completely surprised me.
James McGovern
Hidden costs in using hard money
5 November 2025 | 7 replies
“beware of the plethora of fees …”Of course, you can always walk away from a loan over last-minute surprises, but let’s be real.
Tracy Thielman
Managing Commercial vs. Residential — What’s Been Your Experience?
11 November 2025 | 0 replies
Property managers — if you’ve handled both residential and commercial spaces, what’s been your biggest surprise in switching between them?
Laura Winters
Sonder is OUT!
14 November 2025 | 20 replies
Arbitrage as a model has never worked in the long run, so I'm not surprised here at all.
Bruce D. Kowal
"The Inheritance Trap Nobody Warns You About"
10 November 2025 | 5 replies
That can save a lot of stress and surprises later.
Kelly Schroeder
How Do You Keep Renovation Costs Under Control When Prices Spike?
5 November 2025 | 3 replies
We would rather lose a deal or two than chase those that turn into a bundle of surprises.
Barbara Johannsen
How I Got Interested in Real Estate Notes (and What I’ve Learned So Far)
14 November 2025 | 5 replies
I started exploring note investing a while back and was surprised how different it is from owning rentals.