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I live in New Zealand in a city with very expensive housing, so I have started to invest out of town in a cheaper city.I have a couple of doors and want to acquire more but am finding it very hard to find deals.I have...
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Hey, new investor in Chicago, IL. I wanted to know what 'next steps' people take after doing a lot of research. Do you begin: networking? saving funds? etc.Also, how did you do these things, went to events? budgeting?
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In 2017 I bought my first rental. I set a goal back then to have 5 rentals by 2022 and this week I hit that goal. A year early. And all with $7500. And honestly, it’s all thanks to BiggerPockets. I wanted to share my ...
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Hello everyone,I'm sure this has been asked before, but when I searched I couldn't find anything. I have someone who wants to be the down payment on property but doesn't want anything to do with the property and just ...
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Last week, I closed on my very first buy and hold multifamily investment property (out of state). A duplex.
I would like to increase my investment portfolio by at least one multifamily each year for the next 5 years,...
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I see some investors on BP really focus on initial cash flow and when running a business this makes total sense. As a business experiment, I recently rented out a car I bought ( $3500 all in ) with a service like airb...
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I was able to track down few properties purchased by bank at wholesale. From my experience few weeks later these properties will pop up on the MLS with around 17% mark up from the bank purchase price. I guess the 17...
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I'm an oil and gas analyst turned RE agent I'm writing a book and starting a vlog just on my FB to try and educate people on both mindset of being an investor and what one needs to do to be able to effectively start t...
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I have an agent with whom I've had a long term (past) working relationship for several years. 99% of her business is (no surprise in this market) short sales as a seller's rep. I, of course, am wanting to find a way t...
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My wife was briefly furloughed (as a doctor) and we were concerned about Rental income at a short-Term stay property (we own three single family homes, including our primary). Turns out we made a lot of money during t...