All Forum Posts by: Aaron Breckenridge

 Even if you get a local bank to do the mortgage, they're probably going to turn around and sell it to another lender. I lived in Ft. Worth for about 10 years and there are a lot of great starter neighborhoods, but like @Dave Skow I also recommend renting for 6-12 months to get a feel for the neighborhoods.

Our Marketplace forum is being renamed to Classifieds! Right now we're not doing anything but a rename. We hope that the new name better distinguishes this forum from the rest of the forums and tools here on BiggerPockets.

I think crypto and de-fi will be interesting to watch the next 5 years. I have zero investments in either. Right now, crypto is a terribly expensive and inefficient way to store and transfer value. The transaction fees are ridiculous compared to non-crypto currencies. And it really wouldn't take much for a large and capable nation to destroy crypto via a 51% attack, which I think people are kind of blind to that possibility.