Anthony Gayden
A Big Pyramid Scheme?
Does real estate investing ever seem like a giant pyramid scheme to anyone else? The way loans, lending, payments, and everything works almost seems like a pyramid scheme. Throw in syndications and private money and y...
James Hamilton
On the verge of my first property!
Hello everyone, I could use some advice. I looked at a FSBO single-family house in St Louis that is within my price range and will cash flow right off the bat. In a good area, good schools, it all checks out. I also h...
Colin C leamy
Buying $40k rentals in Florida?
I'm tired of barely scraping by and I've decided to give the BRRR thing a go. The most I can afford is a $40k-50k home. I live in Connecticut but the prices here are insane so I decided to try Florida since my grandmo...
Alex Lawson
Should I invest in my house to refinance and use that to BRRR?
Hey everyone, I am at a bit of a cross roads in my real estate investing and I was hoping that the community could help me to make the best decision. My girlfriend and have owned a duplex for one year. We live in one ...
Herm M.
What Should I Do?
The lender countered our original offer (250k) with an offer of 285k. There's a buyer lined-up at 340k. Should I try to cut down the 285k down to 270-275k, and increase profits? Or should we not risk getting denied an...
Sam Silverman
Ask me Anything! Fund Manager, LP/GP in 25+ syndications
Bigger pockets has been an excellent source of knowledge, networking and collaboration for me over the past year. I've read and learned quite a lot while scrolling through this site, and figured I'd create an open for...
Kevin OBrien
Negotiating with the property manager?
We found a few rentals nearby to eachother in an area we have been looking at for a while. We were thinking of seeing if the property management would reduce their fees since the rentals are near to eachother. I was w...
Daniel Soovajian
Questions about BRRRR with a 1031 exchange
Hello,Curious for BP's advice on my situation here...I live in WA and have a condo in CT that's worth about $125,000. There's $32,000 left on that mortgage and I want to put the equity there to better use. I am exitin...
Konrad Lightner
Ben Leybovich says that making down-payments is not smart – thoughts?
Ben's latest article suggested this and he thought it would be a good forum post to check out what other people think. Check out his article, it's a good read. http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/09/02...Se...
John Thedford
Wrote Another Mortgage-12% Plus 4 Points-NO TENANT HEADACHES
For those contemplating alternate investments, I highly recommend considering hard money lending. I started in 2012 with little knowledge or information. At that time we didn't have Dodd-Frank to be concerned with. Fo...