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My friend, Mary, is like most real estate investors. She’s always looking for ways to improve her odds of finding cheap properties. Recently, she attended the Brooklyn foreclosure auction in the [...]

Starting a career in real estate investing can be hard if you don’t know where to look for deals or who to ask for direction, especially in a place like the Windy City. The fact is, the local [...]

It’s been a while since I explored my options for real estate investment classes here in NJ. Still, when a former co-worker, Pat, approached me about the local training opportunities he’d [...]

Sometimes I get so revved up about something—a new job, a business opportunity, a trip to my in-laws—that I don’t even know where to begin. Obviously, the nature of my excitement differs [...]

I’ve been investing in New York real estate for years and frequently chat with other seasoned investors about which up and coming New York City neighborhoods to invest in next. I’d heard there [...]

When I met my friend, Josh, the other day for a drink over at Temperance, he mentioned how he and his wife had really taken to several of the house-flipping television shows on HGTV. Of course, [...]

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google—four tech names representing multi-billion dollar companies recognized by just about every age demographic in the world, let alone the United States. Billions of [...]

My first experience with real estate investing came somewhat regrettably and unexpectedly. My uncle owned a 34-acre horse farm about 20 minutes from my home and when he passed on at the ripe old [...]

For decades after World War II, South Bronx was home to high poverty and crime rates that were fueled by a weakened local economy and few job opportunities. Vacancy rates shot up and property [...]