Over the weekend, I took my family to the DuPage Children’s Museum and met Jon, a local real estate investor who was there with his family too. He said he was just starting a career in real [...]

As a young, impressionable lad in my late twenties, I had a lot to learn about business. Most of that education would result from experience. My mom worked in a customer service role in a small, [...]

I’m probably like every other East Coaster who immediately associates the Bronx with the New York Yankees. You may beg to differ if you’re a soccer fan who doesn’t give a hoot about baseball and [...]

My wife’s best friend, Tracy, recently said she was quitting her corporate job to become a real estate investor. Tracy had been talking about it for years and finally felt she was ready to leave [...]

When I first started investing in New York real estate years ago, everything I tried to accomplish, from marketing to distressed homeowners to correctly evaluating potential deals, seemed to take [...]

Judy came up to me one evening after I gave a small talk at a local real estate investing club. She said that while helping her daughter shop for a house in Avondale, she’d noticed quite a few [...]