I have been involved with flipping properties since early 2000s.   First subbing out as a carpenter for several local investors and builders.   When the market dropped out in 2008.  Everyone I knew including myself we...

That was really my biggest challange when getting started investing in real estate. i didn't read a lot of the post in the wholesale catagory, but i have not seen one taht address this. When i got started it seemed li...

First off I hope this is the correct sub forum (BP is over loaded with sub forums)

I am wondering how many BP members live solely off of their real estate. By this I mean a person who doesn't have a job and isn't l...

Hi everyone,

I listened to a webinar the other day that had an interesting idea. They called it residential backflipping. I'll try to lay out the basics from that webinar here (this is what Peter Conti and Jerry Nort...

Dear Pocketers,

How do you harden / bullet-proof your rentals?

While I've never had anyone utterly trash a rental of mine, I've seen the damage they can do first hand (typically when buying the rental and seeing ...

Some of you may have read my post and/or watched the video of my $11,000 house. That is all in after all rehabbing. Currently rented out for $500/month. Could have easily gotten $550/month.Well we are now rehabbing an...

Does anyone in the bigger pockets community have personal experience with a Whole Life Insurance policy or Wealth Maximization Account to help build their wealth and real-estate portfolio.

Hello Everyone, I have been having a hard debate with my girlfriend. She just went to a class that gave her the RE Basics. We do not have a house at this point in time, but we want to purchase a house soon. We have li...

I have invested in his course and not yet attended the seminar. During the period since buying I have been sending in deals that would meet the criteria and gotten some less than motivating responses.
So if you have e...

I just finished reading Christine Karpinski's book 'How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner' . The slant of it was that if you manage yourself and use portals like Airbnb, vrbo, etc. you can break even or even get po...