Hi,I just joined BP this week. I am overwhelmed by all the info and am still learning. Loving it.A bit about me. I'm currently 48, have no experience in RE, and live in silicon valley (San Jose, CA). I do not own any ...

Hello BiggerPockets!This forum (along with all the podcasts and books) made it possible for me to start my journey into REI. I did about 18 months worth of educating myself/ procrastinating, but it has now been 3 mont...

Hello, everyone!  My name is Kevin and I am very interested in flipping houses.To start, I should probably say I am in the military and not really in the position to start flipping immediately, but my wife and I are v...

Hi BP,I am trying to do some creative financing with my current potential deal. I want to do seller finance with the owner who does not own his property free and clear. He told me that generally, the rules of Seller f...

There are so many different methods in real estate...I got to wonder, what are the most used methods by investors out there? I'm working hard on a plan to actually free myself from the rat race and be an independent ...

I composed an offer letter for my real estate agent to send out and it included pictures of my wife and our new baby. 
After sending out 10 offer letters, I found out she hasn't been including our photos. When I aske...

Hi Everyone,I am newbie here, I bought triplex 2 years ago and came with one of really sick tenant and he live by himself.  2 years ago his ill was not that bad but gotten worse reasonly and he is in wheel chair, the ...

Just finished listening to podcast #278 in which Charles Roberts was interviewed.  He said he was a "boring" investor.  I really connected with his style of buying and paying off real estate.  (As opposed to flips or ...

I inherited tenants at a duplex I bought in February.  Both units had low income racial minority families with school-aged children. (Race is relevant because I'm white, and there's a well-publicized issue in Portland...

I am an investor and licensed Virginia Realtor living in Northern Virginia who enjoys transforming and improving communities by rehabbing run down and abandoned properties and making them available to families who wou...