(Some have unique insurance requirements which are hard to get by your typical name brand carriers.

My name is Nieko, I am a brand new Bigger Pockets site member after being a long time surveyor of the youtube channel and listener of the podcasts, and have now decided to jump into the mix of things, I just wanted to start a discussion on peoples first real estate Acquisitions, see how they were feeling during the process, did you do a super detective method of knowing every little itsy-bitsy detail before you bought in?

Hi everyone! I'm 20 years old with only a few hundred $$ to my name, I'm trying to learn what I can do to be involved in real estate before I can finance anything myself. I'm working in home remodeling right now, are ...

I have a brand new 5 ton ac unit but here in socal it does get very hot and sun sets towards front of their house.

Some people just love the idea of jumping in and completely transforming the house into something that's essentially brand-new.

Welcome to BP.I recently checked some new construction in Dallas Fort Worth area and in a decent area, the price is around $200,000 for a brand new 3-4 bed, 2 bath single family home. 

So I can pay the installer and get brand new carpet 3x times for the cost of just paying for these tiles (not even accounting for shipping and install).I'd spend the time that would go towards installing (or finding somebody to install) on finding a great budget friendly carpet installer.  

Wat I dont understand is why would an experienced investor who owns this many homes have you who lives in Georgia market Memphis properties when you are brand new and dont truly know what you are doing?  

I would prefer to not have pets in my units but to be honest the units need some updating so it's not like the pets are going to ruin brand new carpet.

When it comes to advice it is like the old rancher saying, "Trust your neighbor, but brand your own cows"  In other words you might trust what folks are saying as advice, but use your own common sense to make sure it fits with your own investments.