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I can’t help myself—I hear the phrase “private money lenders” and the theme from the Sopranos starts playing in my head. I know that’s not true, not really how it works—it’s just a TV show, [...]

Anyone who has ever had a job they hated knows all too well the feeling of longing to do something else. You spend your commute daydreaming about the career you were meant to have and are envious [...]

The saying that home is where the heart is couldn’t be truer when it comes to the Keystone State. It’s why I headed back here when I decided to start investing in real estate about a decade go. [...]

I’m the one and only person in my family who purchases and renovates distressed properties, which makes me the go-to gal when it comes to anything real estate related. I’ve fielded a lot of [...]

Being a professional real estate investor, I’m often a sounding board for friends and family who are thinking about purchasing an investment property. They confidently lay out their ideas, but [...]

Over the summer, I was having dinner at Spot on the Dock, right at the edge of Lake Champlain, staring into the hugeness of the water toward New York. The sun was setting behind me, and the water [...]

There’s something straightforward about Craigslist. The bare-bones format, the anonymity, the strange and wonderful oddities you discover. You can learn a lot about a community by seeing just [...]

Rewind about a decade when finding properties to purchase and renovate was a relative walk in the park. All you had to do is canvass a neighborhood to find one distressed property after the next. [...]

Whenever I tell people that I buy, rehab, and sell distressed properties for a living, the first question out of their mouth is about how I get the cash. My answer: easily. There’s no question [...]