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While visiting my cousin, Terry, and her husband, Will, over in Islandview, I noticed one of their laptops opened up to an article called the ‘Ultimate Guide to Real Estate Investing.’ Up until [...]

Riding market highs and market lows—while finding good investment opportunities regardless—is something that real estate investors have to get used to. When I first began investing in New Jersey [...]

I spend a lot of my time speaking to new investors. It’s part of my job. Finding out what makes investors successful or, more importantly, what they are having problems doing helps me to improve [...]

Growing up on the South Side, my cousin Eddie lived next door to us. He has always been my best friend, even now that we are both focused on family and careers instead of playing ball in the [...]

“Homes are going for only a thousand dollars in Detroit!” “I read you could buy them for one hundred!” This was the gist of the conversation I overheard at the Los Angeles International Airport [...]

When Barry bought his first single-family investment house a few years ago, he debated whether or not to sell the property or keep it as a rental. It was a decision, I told him, that he should [...]

When Roberta, one of the other moms at school, approached me about becoming a real estate investor, she mentioned she was hesitating because she didn’t know anything about the market or where to [...]

When my father returned from his third tour in Vietnam, he remained active military until he could retire. As traumatic as those early years of serving his country were, he knew military life fit [...]

I was comparing residential hard money lenders that service New York investors with my friend, Vince, when a young guy I’d seen around town asked if he could join the conversation. We were [...]