Top 10 U.S. Rental Markets + MORE

In our second “Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur” interview, we’re talking to Jay Gierak the co-founder of Stik.com; a service that allows you to share your reviews all over the web.

Without further adieu…
1) What do you do?
I am the co-founder of Stik. We help real estate agents collect & display reviews from their happiest past clients across the web…

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This time of year, scoring a rental can be a battle. Spring and summer are traditionally the hottest times of the year for rentals, and apartments can fly off the market in no time. Of course, as in all things real estate, location determines how hot the rental market is. Realtor…

Such was the title of a recent thread on the BiggerPockets.com Forums.  I can’t help myself – let’s consider options.
But before I dig into the content, I’d like to preface this article by saying that any suggestion contained herein is more like me saying here’s what I would do with $40,000, which may or may not be the right answer for the individual who posed the question on the forum or any of your reading this…

Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed mortgages rose this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 3.93 percent, up from 3.87 percent at this same time last week.
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate hovered between 3.85 and 3.94 percent for the majority of the week, dropping to as low as 3…

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For hockey fans in Boston and Chicago, this might be one of the more memorable NHL Stanley Cup Finals ever. These are two of the more storied franchises in the National Hockey League, and arguably, two of the more fired-up hockey towns in the United States.
After starting out the year with an unbelievable 24-straight-game winning streak, the Blackhawks enter as the top-seeded team in the league…