Hey Bigger Pockets Community,A year ago I wrote about rebuilding and starting over in life and considering real estate investing as a path (see post here: "Bad credit, minimal cash and starting over in life . . . Is t...

Hi BP, I am interested in invest out of state and these are the three metro area that I am looking into: San Antonio, Austin or OKC area.  I really like OKC but it has tornados that kind of prevent me from looking fur...

While I’m not a newbie, I own two condos as long term rentals, I live overseas and thus my real estate experience is overseas.

@Pat Aboukhaled can you recommend one of those investor meetups that you think would be good for a newbie like me?

Hello, I am new to real estate and looking to get into it and out of renting and starting to work on building that generational wealth. I am a self employed residential general contractor. This year we cleared about $...

I don't expect to know everything by then, but I hope to develop a basic strategy that prevents me from making the most common and costly mistakes that a newbie can make.

@Brett Coultas if you're a newbie, you want to be careful of an "investor friendly" agent selling you something they truly don't understand:(95+% of agents only know how to handle owner-occupied transactions - you can verify this by asking them calculate ROI for you or Cash-On-Cash!

If you are a newbie or old timer who is really struggling to break through in this business, what do you think is the reason so many don't make it?

There is so many posts about complete newbies wanting to partner or use someone else's money and I think that is far too risky. 

Most are selling hype to get you to buy their programs by deliberately make it sound easy.Your profile here on BP is blank, so guessing you are a "newbie"?