Back in November (2014) I closed on my first REI property.  A 'turnkey' duplex in Chicago.  I went with a well-known turnkey provider and posted initial updates in this thread:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/to...

Hello BiggerPockets members. Love his community. Have anyone of you hired Tardus for wealth coaching? They are the creators of the Income Snowball (i.e. Income Snowball, a system of investing in which a person can cre...

Name something you've learned from someone on BiggerPockets (podcast, forums, blog, whatever) and tag the person from whom you learned it. Name as many people as you want, but please limit your posts to one-person-per...

I want to start by saying I’ve done many wholesale deals and am very aware that listed properties are not ideal for wholesaling. However, this situation is a bit different and since I’ve never dealt with a listed prop...

Hey BP Community,I became a BP Pro member in December of 2015.  After years of talking about investing in Real Estate I decided it was time to take some action.  I started using my hour commute to work to listen to th...

I've listened to many of the podcasts on this site. Many recommend that a buy and hold investor should start by managing his/her own properties.  I was wondering if anyone could tell me what they have gained by managi...

Hi all. How do I deal with this tenant? They live on the first floor of a small ten-unit building.  You have to walk up several steps from the ground floor to get there. The laundry room is on ground floor.  The laund...

Our team in Indiana has hired a lobbyist to represent the interests of housing providers and investors.  One of our first objectives is to replace the word "landlord" with "housing provider" in ALL pieces of legislati...

Are Hedge funds buying in your city... should investors be following them and buying along side the Hedge funds with the hope of getting swept up in the anticipation of capital growth based on supply demand?  Or are t...

What's holding you back in your real estate investing career? What type of problems are you running into as you try to grow your business?This question is geared towards both new and experienced investors. It could be...