So, as don't have an accountant, can anyone recommend a good one in the US?

Really? I thought buyers agents were involved in all transactions in the USA. I’m pretty sure I’ve had a buyers agent involved with every house I bought. I guess I could be mistaken.I initially had a fantastic buyers agent in Phoenix who I bought one house through but he basically said the amount of work he was doing for the small commission he…[Read more]

Jay you are not going to get lack of gratitude from me. My downfall is my youth, loyalty and too trusting nature.I actually bought properties I didn’t particularly want to buy because I thought the agent had done a lot of work inspecting houses for me and I owed her the commission. I also wanted to give more work to the tradesman who I c…[Read more]

Jay, you sound really smart. Can we be friends? You lose me a bit though due to a few typos and acronyms I don't understand. It would be good if this was a real discussion forum as opposed to online but I'll soak in as much wealth of knowledge from everyone here that I can. Thank you

UPDATE TO THIS POST-Unfortunately the sale fell through

zmagen I think I saw them for sale through ziprealty and I bought them through a ziprealty agent. She is a nice woman. They were about $122,000 for the 3 from memory. I looked on zillow and rentometer to get a gauge of what they would rent for. So the ROI seemed very good. However as I didn't visit them, I was unaware the neighbourhood is very…[Read more]

zmagen can you clarify what you want to know? I saw 3 properties for sale for a cheap price that were built in 2008. They were originally built as model homes. It seemed like a good deal so I purchased the 3 houses.

Wow I'm really I overwhelmed by people's support on this forum. I didn't expect it at all. To those people who implied I was naive and stupid I must agree I displayed a degree of this.I felt I did do due diligence by checking the tradesman had a registered address with the BBB and verifying his home address. I also did a reference check with a…[Read more]

zmagen wrote:
"Who sold you this in the first place and how does a 25 year old get into a positon to be where you are… 99% of 25 year olds in the states could never buy a home…. UNLESS they are in the BAY AREA and work for Google and facebook and if so they are looking at 2 million dollar properties"Priceless ) I'm also curious, how'd you…[Read more]