For buy and hold investors out there, how do you guys think about appreciation and how do you factor it in to your buying and selling decisions, if at all? What key factors do you use to measure the potential for appr...

Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...

This is my first off-topic thread (I think) and I am starting it because I think it has a valuable lesson for newbie BP members who want to make it big.

As you guys know, I travel a lot internationally and, as a resu...

Let me first start by saying that I am far from being a newb in Short Sales. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not dumb enough to 'claim' to be doing short sales since 1952 or some crazy stuff like that.

As most o...

Greetings BP,Currently have a property under contract that is a 3/1 on the skirts of an established town.  Below are the numbers:-Price: $53K-Recently updated (before listing; turnkey property)-"Zestimate" at $57K-Sig...

We all had to start somewhere . . . new investors are thirsty for real estate advice and I think we can get a thread going with some fantastic feedback from many different viewpoints. So . . .

What's Your Top Tip for...

With all the speculation on where we are currently in the real estate cycle and some more or less anecdotal evidence supporting a market crash or still more golden years to come I wanted to know the numbers and facts ...

Hi everyone I am looking to get started in real estate investing and have been searching for my first buy and hold property. I live in the San Francisco bay area and it seems that it is pretty tough to find a cash flo...